What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabbas!

For who can we be, but ourselves.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.