Peggy Haslar

“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”
― T.S. Eliot

“When we act in mercy we recognize the value of others. If we see only one bright spot amid a thousand negatives, we affirm that bright spot. Not because it is a bright spot, but because it is the peephole of the mystery that the other carries inside. This is love: when one’s own fulfillment, one’s self-realization, coincides with affirming others.”
― Luigi Giussani, The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny

“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“When His Word is welcomed into our silenced poverty, our poor silence is filled with His every blessing.”
― Anthony Lilles, Fire from Above