Quotes from Vinita Hampton Wright

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

Death is just another country… And God's taking care of things there, the same as here. God's in charge of getting people from one place to another. You don't need to worry about it, or be afraid of it. … That's why I'm not afraid of death anymore. I like hanging out with it, sort of like walking a fence line, knowing that the property you're looking at will be yours before long.

The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It's not the writing that needs prayer - it's you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue is dogging you today, whether it's anxiety about your teenager or resistance to the topic you are trying to write.

On the inside of every window is a good intention trying to get out. Open your window today.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

When a writer takes on the task of exploring the world of the spirit, she has invited a process that will change her permanently. If she has done her work well, it will change her readers too.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin.

If you have writer's block, dig into it. You are resisting something. Something is getting in the way of your creative work. Resistance always means something.