It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.