(21 quotes found)
“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”
Madeleine L'Engle
“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are”
“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.”
“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility”
“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.”
