"Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death."

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The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

— Frederick Buechner