A life lived in chaos is an impossibility..
Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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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.
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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