Magic is all knowledge and no truth;
Physics is narrow truth and bounded knowledge,
Literature is diffuse truth and a garden of knowledge;
Religion is received truth and ambivalent knowledge.
Though many have, the little ones of God have not been decimated
by arrogant engagements of mind.
Grounded in love, they believe in order to understand;
for fear of idolatry, they do not understand in order to believe.
They also know what word saturated minds neglect:
that which exists in the mind is but an apparition of existence.
The real irony of existence is that ironies are commonplace.
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There are three orders of saints:
those who are a glory on the mountain tops;
those who gleam brightly on the sides of the hills; and those who are faint lights down in the valleys. –St. Patrick
