“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.” —Isaiah 26:3–4
“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.” —1 Corinthians 3:18
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis
"The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle."—G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant, p. 47
"To those who disdain the word 'miracle', life is still a great mystery. That is because life—life itself—is not a substance. Air and light are oak and iron in comparison to life itself. For a good while now, I have been asking my scientific friends if any scientist has ever passed a dissecting blade between an organism and its life and then placed the lifeless body of the organism into one vessel and its removed life into another, so as to study the character and consistency of life itself. So far as I have discovered, life itself has never been isolated or captured or confined. The most principled materialist is a living creature who has never seen or heard or tasted or touched or smelled, let alone weighed or measured or priced, apart from the body, the life that so far has animated his body. He can only be amazed, like all his kind from the beginning until now, that life is something that in one moment creatures have, and in the next have had."—Wendell Berry, The Need to Be Whole, p. 481