“Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it? ”

“Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh yes, You-Know-Who's snake turned up, it nearly killed both of us, and then You-Know-Who himself arrived and missed us by about a second. Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?”

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.”

“Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.”

“We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.”

“The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them.”