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It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth.
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.
The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.
Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.
Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.
Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.
One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.
I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.