THE BLESSING OF SINGLE SENTENCES: WORDS AND WISDOM

One of the great benefits of reading is the combination of pleasure and profit that arises from the marriage of wisdom and words—which is to say, wisdom that owes its revelation and effect to the words chosen to embody it. Anyone who helps us come to terms with the human experience is our friend. Someone who does so in powerful and graceful language is a potential soul friend. (See Celtic Christianity’s “anachmara”)
I came across such a marriage recently in a single sentence in an article by Kevin Williamson : “There is ...