“time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.”
“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.”
“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.”
“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”
“We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. ”
“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.”