Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

We are what we believe we are.

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.