A Cosmic Sweepstake

It is a glorious desitny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race.
A member of the human race!
To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweepstake.

Thomas Merton

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: 157