Daniel Beck

“Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.”
― Jean Shepherd, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

“The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”
― John Piper, Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ

“My love for Bardia (not Bardia himself) had become to me a sickening thing. I had been dragged up and out onto such heights and precipices of truth, that I came into an air where it could not live. It stank; a gnawing greed for one to whom I could give nothing, of whom I craved all.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings