The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.