Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that mean so much to people that has so much attention on it, it can be quite paralyzing I think. I think a lot of that creeped in the first time around and it maybe affects the work.