Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.