“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.”
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.