We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle
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A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Her hands were broad and strong; the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They still moved to her bidding…. No matter to what she likened them-turnips, carrots-they were still as nimble as ever. The notes came clear and true.
I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike.
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive... and open to groth.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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