What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.Collection: Parenting
Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .Collection: Life
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.Collection: People
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.Collection: Writing
The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.Collection: Friendship
There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.Collection: Home
simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.Collection: Prayer
Death is the perfect knowing.Collection: Death
What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.Collection: Children
the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.Collection: Beauty
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.Collection: Children
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.Collection: Heart
some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.Collection: Sheep
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.Collection: Life
One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.Collection: Racing
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.Collection: Strength
My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.Collection: Life
Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.Collection: Prayer