How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.