The universe itself is not simply matter in motion, indifferent to man's search for truth, goodness, and beauty,...the universe also possesses these spiritual qualities in some way.  And, though a natural or human catastrophe should destroy man with all of his ideals, ideas, and spiritual treasures, these cherished things would still survive because they are more than the creations of man.

Lowell Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth pg. 106

"The arc of the moral universe is indeed long but it does bend toward justice."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 32)

"True masonry is not held together by cement but by gravity. That is to say, by the warp of the world. By the stuff of creation itself. The keystone that locks the arch is pressed in place by the thumb of God."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 10)

"Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace, and healing of the night will be obliterated."

-Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (pg. 126)