Quotes by Adele

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too.”

“Believing takes practice.”

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

“Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but dont forget that he never promised hed say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That he ...”

“The young man murmured in his sleep and said, Dear Sparrow, and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.”

“But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.”

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. ”

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

“The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.”

“Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery.”

“If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for wh...”

“Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-s...”

“The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are consta...”

“Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.”

“The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.”

“Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.”

“Are you depressed?What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?”

“Are you depressed?""What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?”

“Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions a...”

“Art is communication.”