Julian Maddock

“What I meant, whether or no I managed to say it, was this; that no man knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whatever created him and enabled him to call himself anything. At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton

“…prominence and deviance are two ways of standing apart from society’s norms.”
― William R. Herzog II, Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed

“God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”
― Barry Taylor

“Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.”
― Otto Rank, Will Therapy/Truth and Reality