Flabbergasted Quotes

“There are potholes on the road less traveled. Some deep, some not so deep, some you dig yourself. Most are filled with mud. Many contain rocks. Once in a while, however, you'll be walking along and step in one a bit more accommodating... shabby, green, and pulsing with life. It'll tickle your feet, like clover.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“We passed Columbia, the state furnace, inhaling hot garnet air as if straight from Aunt Bea's oven.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“Because outside of God's shadow I was just a gaudy plastic float filled with stubborn air, drifting off like a blind Jonah in search of Plan B, manipulating circumstances and wondering why I kept waking up in my very own Tarshish.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“For my tomorrow is a concrete jungle in a number-driven world, and hers remains a ministry to a lush little village. Thus time will pass and letters will be sent, and letters will arrive and letters will be sent, and one day I'll be seated at a noisy Manhatten trading desk, oblivious to markets in motion and will wonder once again how God got me into a Presbyterian church, to a particular beach with a particular girl on a certain weekend in May, and gave me wacky new friends and a new fresh perspective, the living words and the eternal words and the words of a black man who give rhythm to the gospel, and once again it will occur to me that all this just cannot be happenstance...no, surely not happenstance, nothing Presbyterian is ever happenstance. But what you didn't tell me, Asbury, is how much of life derives simply from choice.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“The Lone Ranger is a pagan child. If I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling 'em.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“He mounted the board in roughly the same manner as a walrus wound mount a balance beam.”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted

“Tuesday evening while grilling chicken on”
― Ray Blackston, Flabbergasted