January 2010
11 posts
“When there is always a book to read or a book to write, a sermon to prepare or a...”
– Brennan Manning (via lukescommonplacebook). I’ve posted this before but thought it was worth reblogging now.
“Worldviews — philosophical, religious, nonreligious, antireligious,...”
– Hunter Baker, in his book The End of Secularism
“If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers,...”
– Satan, in a letter to Pat Robertson
“[The resurrection of Jesus] bursts open the constraints of nature and history,...”
– Richard Bauckham
“The clichéd kiss, the doe-eyed smile, the Christmas-card sentiments advertise...”
– Roger Scruton, qtd. here
“Thus his constant praise of friendship: “I look upon every day to be lost,...”
– from Alan Jacobs’ essay on Samuel Johnson
Franz Wright, "Pediatric Suicide"
Being who you are is not a disorder.
Being unloved is not a psychiatric disorder.
I can’t find being born in the diagnostic manual.
I can’t find being born to a mother incapable of touching you.
I can’t find being born on the shock treatment table.
Being offered affection unqualified safety and respect when and only when you score dope for your father is not a diagnosis.
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“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we...”
– G. K. Chesterton