Joshua

“The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life & Opinions

“Hillary thinks like an economist, while Donald is a game theorist, and is able to achieve with one tweet what would take Clinton four years of congressional infighting. That’s alchemy; you may hate it, but it works.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

“Sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.”
― Scott Cairns, Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems

“He [Saint Anselm] said theology is faith seeking understanding. In fact he was riffing on Saint Augustine who said "Credo ut intelligam" — I believe in order to understand — not that my puny understanding and such attempts as I have to use rational powers are ever, by themselves, going to get me to some conclusion in which my mind, small as it is, can comprehend the wholeness of God's mystery, and arrive at a fully orthodox conclusion by a chain of reasoning. That will never happen, because God is always greater [...]”
― Malcolm Guite