Things I Have Read

From Proverbs 26:

"It is the glory of God to conceal things,
but the glory of kings is to search things out."

"Americans never think of themselves as sharing fully in the human condition, and therefore beset as all humankind is beset."
-Marilynne Robinson

"Try to understand the Triune God, and you will lose your mind. Deny the effort to discover the Triune God, and you will lose your soul."
-St. Augustine

"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us...Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence...There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?"
-John Steinbeck