"A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world."

“The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it”

“God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.”

“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”

“The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.”

“Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.”

“You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.”

“The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.”

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“My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2016). “Things like the Truth: Out of My Later Years”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi