There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Even Drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.
Chapter 5, A Special Providence (p. 82)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)
“What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomized by the species on Darwin's Galapagos Islands? The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.… The God of the Galapagos is careless, wasteful, indifferent, almost diabolical. He is certainly not the sort of God to whom anyone would be inclined to pray.”
Reviewing Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial for Nature in 1992, as quoted in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Vol. 45, p. 47 (1993) by American Scientific Affiliation
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"Letter to shareholders" http://www.exor.com/?p=lettera_presidente_dettaglio&s=exor&lang=en, Exor, April 2011
Source: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 5, A Special Providence

“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”
"This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine, August 30, 2009.
"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)

"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Context: Through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trapeze to some sort of eternity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace.
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

Source: from Waste, in More Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1919)