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“Religion comes from a Latin root meaning “to bind,” referring to the bond of obedience that characterizes the life of a member of a religious order. By extension, religion can be thought of as a bond of unity, as a process that “re-ligaments” or “re-ligatures,” tying disparate things back together into one, integrating diverse viewpoints.”
― Michael Ward, After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man

“(The sheer delight to be found in reading other readers’ marginalia is unforgettably rendered in Billy Collins’s poem, “Marginalia.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

“Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.”
― Anonymous

“However, when value is recognised as objective, individual preference (though it need not be utterly eradicated) is relativised, one’s private perspective is shown to be relative to the real value of beautiful things, and therefore one’s appreciation of beauty can be more or less intelligent, more or less attuned to the structures that inhere in nature and that can even sometimes be mathematically discerned (revealing the presence of such measurables as Pi, the Golden Ratio, and the Fibonacci Sequence).”
― Michael Ward, After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man