God, for some inscrutable reason, shows himself in all kinds of created beauty. The height of this beauty is our own human nature. Therefore we must, at all costs, protect the treasure that is human life and let no nation's laws take it away. . . . When any segment of the "great chain of being" is disrespected, the entire chain is weakened and the sacred is lost.
— Richard Rohr, Job and the Mystery of Suffering