Pharmacdon

“The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space.”
― Richard Stark, The Jugger

“Their tradition began in Martin Luther’s ravishing love affair with the God he met in the Bible. It was a love for which he was willing to sweep aside any tradition or power structure that stood in his way. Since his day, Protestants have pursued that love in radically different ways: individually or through institutions, intellectually or emotionally, tolerantly or violently, calmly or restlessly, apocalyptically or idealistically, working within older traditions or radically rejecting them. Often that old flame has been reduced to a simmer or doused altogether, sometimes it has blazed beyond any control, but it is the same fire. To understand Protestantism’s enormous impact on our world, we need to understand the restless burning it has kindled and rekindled in generations of believers.”
― Alec Ryrie, Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and little white envelopes, all seemed to professional, too sleek, too quiet and efficient to be any part of the local law.
The local law was three dough-faced farm hands in rumpled blue uniforms, standing around the room looking for traffic to direct.”
― Richard Stark, The Jugger