How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.