17 Quotes by Patti Callahan

As with any good friend, we have many of those moments when one turns to the other and says, 'You too?

After Peter finished, the silence extended, enveloping us all. The hospital and the world paused with us; time was suspended. It lasted for only seconds but it felt like an eternity in my soul. Outside, a songbird sang a single note. A tray banged across the hallway. A child called out below my window. A doctor called for a nurse, and the world began again. It all began again.

Do you know the German word, sehnsucht," he asked."Yes," I answered. "The idea of an inconsolable longing for what we don't understand. You believe that longing is for God. Or heaven. And that we can confuse it with longing for someone or something else.

Honestly, Joy, I don't even like writing nearly as much as you do."I stopped and starred at her, bundling my coat closer. "I couldn't live without it.""I don't believe I could either, but I don't love it as much as you do. I live for the one moment when it works. It's like a high I search for again and again, and rarely find.

If I attempt virtue it brings light to my life. If I indulge desires, I invite fog and confusion.

I've spent all of my life in an attempt to find truth and moral good and then to live it. I can't discard my moral habits for feelings, which are just that.(The moral virtues) They are my footholds for moral goodness. Morality is about choice.

We can't just surrender to our every desire. Man must have his principles and live by them regardless. Our nature must be controlled or it can ruin our lives.

I'm trying because I must.

God doesn't judge by internal disease but by moral choices. We must protect our hearts.