“You look into the abyss long enough and you see the Spirit of the benevolent Father manifesting itself.

And if you look into the depths of evil and suffering, what you see is not the finality of evil and suffering, you see the victory of the spirit that obtains victory over it.”

"I feel like the question of communal silence makes me think of prayer in places of worship (and makes me think of the fact we can’t really naturally access that act together outside of those spaces)" – Van

"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength"

"For the prophets, silence is an expectant relationship, a state defined by waiting for revelation. And the room is the desert which precedes the ecstatic vision, the silhouette which stands in the world and yet against it."

Unguarded strength is a double weakness because that is where the “retired sphere of the leasts” saps. The Bible characters fell on their strong points, never their weak ones.

“Kept by the power of God” - that is the only safety.