I'm reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.  She is the mother of "Objectivism".  It's great writing with lots of fantastic quotes.  Here is the one that slapped me in the face yesterday.  It's not that I'm buying into her philosophy, it's that truth can be found anywhere God reveals it if I'm connected to Him. 

From the character of Hugh Akston, the great philosopher turned cook in a diner, "By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist.  If you find it inconceivable that an invention of genius should be abandoned among ruins and that a philosopher should wish to work as a cook in a diner - check your premises.  You will find that one of them is wrong."

This rings true to me.  Taken into account when comparing the ruin of the world and the goodness of God.  Taken into account when analyzing the church and my own desperate life.  This is astoundingly reassuring.