“His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.”

“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”

“A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore co...”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”

“Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.”

“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”

“More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.”

“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”

“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”