Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Fear is the absence of faith, while the presence of faith leaves us with the absence of nothing.