How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"