Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.