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“I wish I hadn't cried about a girl a couple of months ago so I would have more tears for this moment, this moment that rips up the term reality, forever un-marries it from the word boring. I am also, I have to admit, terrified, because I have always lived in this one world, and I am leaving it, right now in this moment, for a whole different one. I imagine it's a lot how leaving for college feels, if you were going to college in Atlantis.”
― D.C. Pierson

“It was funny, the way double murder put a damper on romance.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“It was funny, the way double murder put a damper on romance...Once you murdered someone you had to carry it forever. You went to bed with it and it was with you when you woke up.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic — as universal and as durable — as time.”
― Charles Walter Stansby Williams, The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church