Thomas Cahill Quotes
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.
