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"Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her.  When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each of you will still be alive.  Nature is only the image, the symbol; but it is the symbol Scripture invites us to use.   We are summoned to pass in through Nature, beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects.  And in there, in beyond Nature, we shall eat of the tree of life."

--C.S. Lewis from Transposition And Other Addresses

 

"Wonder is at the key to the cosmos, and magic fabricates that."

--S.H. Sharpe

 

"We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual."

--George Elliott

 

"It sometimes seems to me that we are all afflicted with an urge and possessed by a longing for the impossible. The reality around us, the three-dimensional world surrounding us, is too common, too dull, too ordinary for us. We hanker after the unnatural or
supernatural, that which does not exist, a miracle.

"As if ordinary reality isn't enigmatic enough!"

--M.C. Escher

 

MAGIC  n. -- An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

--Ambrose Bierce

 

"Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms.  
No other species wonders about the meaning of existence
or the complexity of the universe or themselves."

--Herbert W. Boyer, Co-Founder of Genentech, Inc.

 

"We cover our deep ignorance with words,
but we are ashamed to wonder, we are afraid
to whisper 'mystery'."

--A.W. Tozer, Knowledge Of The Holy

 

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible,
and achieves the impossible."

--Anonymous

 

"To accomplish great thing, we must not only act but also dream,
not only plan but also believe."

--Anatole France