“Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.”
“We spent our lives making livings.”
“And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.”
“But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.”
“Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.”
“The fact that we live without God is, in a sense, not up to us. It's not really a choice. . . But goodness is a choice. It is the most important choice we can ever make. And we have to make it again and again, throughout our lives and in every aspect of our lives.”