Portentous

“I never had been by any means a book-worm; but the very outside of a book had a charm to me. It was a kind of sacrament—an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace—as, indeed, what on God’s earth is not?"

“But there ought to be a place for any story, which, although founded in the marvelous, is true to human nature and to itself. Truth to Humanity, and harmony within itself, are almost the sole unvarying essentials of a work of art."
George MacDonald, excerpts from the introduction to The Portent
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Hebrews 11:1, 2 (NIV)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.