‘The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in %$#$ and straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It’s the thing that makes me a believer, although it didn’t dawn on me for many years.’
–Bono as quoted in Cathleen Falsani, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), p.10
The Nativity
Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1; 12th century; painted miniatures probably from a Psalter; Northern France or Southern Netherlands; f. 7r @BLMedieval pic.twitter.com/v53jCOfGfz
— Ennius (@red_loeb) December 24, 2023