"I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the
sense that they are wonderful: now I began to think them miracles in the
stricter sense that they were wilful. I mean that they were, or might
be, repeated exercises of some will.
In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I
thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound
emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has
some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a Person. I had always
felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a
Story-teller."
From G.K. Chesterton's classic work of apologetics,
Orthodoxy
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