You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.
A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.
Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.