Jorge Luis Borges: “Literature is one of the forms that happiness takes; perhaps no writer has given me as many happy hours as Chesterton.“

The medieval bishop Isaac of Syria described how, whenever he read to himself,

As in a dream, I enter into a state when my sense and thoughts are concentrated. Then, when with prolonging of this silence, the turmoil of memories is stilled in my heart, ceaseless wavs of joy are sent me by inner thoughts, beyond expectation suddenly arising to delight my heart.

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, p. 65

“In the long run a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. As our window onto the world and onto ourselves, a popular medium molds what we see and how we see it—and eventually, if we use it enough, it changes who we are, as individuals and as a society.” ~The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

“One must guard against the fault of being annoyed with one’s children for not being what one wished and hoped.” ~Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia (daughter of Queen Victoria of England)

God has made my heart faint;

The Almighty has terrified me;

Yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,

Nor because thick darkness covers my face.

Job 23:16-17