Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.