To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.