Comedy is rarely funny.
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes. " And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.