We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.