“But if God brings us into the cross, He will be with us in the cross, and at length, bring us out more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross.”
― The Bruised Reed
― The Bruised Reed
“The smells in the forest were beyond all that he had ever conceived. To say that they made him feel hungry and thirsty would be misleading; almost, they created a new kind of hunger and thirst, a longing that seemed to flow over from the body into the soul and which was a heaven to feel. Again and again he stood still, clinging to some branch to steady himself, and breathed it all in, as if breathing had become a kind of ritual.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“He used the word “trans-sexual” I remember and began to hunt about for some similar words to apply to eating (after rejecting “trans-gastronomic”),”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“We are starting to slide when we start to judge our brother’s motives by whether or not he experiences the same gut response of reactive compassion to the outrage we are assigned to deal with. But a Christian nurse in Romania who has dedicated herself to caring for abandoned orphans with birth defects may never have heard of Roe v. Wade. She doesn’t need to.”
― Skin and Blood
― Skin and Blood
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