Justin Scherrer

“The resurrection of the dead to the glory of the new Jerusalem and a renewed earth marks the end of the wilderness. Therefore, today, in the here and now, the call of God to His church is the call to go to Him into the wilderness and to dwell with Him there while we wait the completion of His redemptive work in the world, culminating in the new creation.”
― D.J. Marotta, Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

“But what we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Let God alone be sought as the judge of loveliness, Who loves even in less beautiful bodies the more beautiful souls.”
― Ambrose of Milan, The Complete Works of St. Ambrose (11 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi