To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

. . .after the shadows comes light.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

No matter how good or bad your state of living currently is, better chapters are destined to unfold in your life.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.