Daniel Beck

“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

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

“Psalms, then, are not just a matchless primer of teaching but a medicine chest for the heart and the best possible guide for practical living.”
― Timothy Keller, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms

“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