“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.”
“Listening to God's word means a trust, a belief, that the word of God is alive and active in our midst, that it will touch us if we let it.”
“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”
“I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.”
“A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.”
“How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.”