melody

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“There are no proofs for the existence of the God of Abraham. There are only witnesses.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“I read the opening of this book and was filled with joy, for its verses and lines spread out their arms to welcome me; the first rushed out and kissed me, and led me on to its companion; and when I reached that verse wherein it is written the story of Paradise, it lifted me up and transported me from the bosom of the book, to the very bosom of Paradise.”
― Ephrem the Syrian

“I don´t want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. I´m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it´s like.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories