Urim

“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“there is a type of flower that can bloom only in the desert of doubt. Faith that we elect to profess in the absence of certainty is an offering that is entirely free, unconditioned, and utterly authentic. Such a gesture represents our considered and chosen response to the universe, our assent to what we find beautiful and worthy and deserving of our risk. We”
― Terryl L. Givens, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith

“Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters