Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. - Madeleine L'Engle

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t.