“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”
“You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.”
“It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”
“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.”
“If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.”