Am I lost or just less found?

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.