In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'
If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl.