When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.