The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.