Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art. ' They don't say that anymore.
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.