Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. - Stephen R. Lawhead

What else is love,” Mathiax had asked her one day, “but taking the pain of another as your own — especially when you are not obliged to?” Thus, pain was woven into the very fabric of the universe — because there could be no love without it, and because the Infinite Father had set love as the cornerstone of His creation.

Most High God, let your servant see but a little ahead. Or, if not give me the hope that drives out fear

Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.