artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.