Daniel Jones > Quotes

“Most often, couples who get together after months or years of online infatuation enact a twenty-first-century version of Icarus flying too close to the sun with his waxen wings: the real-life exposure quickly melts the fiber-optic cable that was holding the couple aloft, and they plummet into the sea, where they tend to flail about for a while, trying to rescue their former magic.”
― Daniel Jones, Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject

“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camp’s mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating in our skulls. When we stay entrenched within our belief-camps, we create the illusion of secure reality by reinforcing each other’s presuppositions and paradigms. We choose specific watering holes of information and evidence, and we influence each other in interpreting that data in accordance with the conclusions we desire. Our camps reinforce our existing cognitive biases, making cheating all the more common and easy.”
― Daniel Jones, Shadow Gods

“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or “pan-agnostic” bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.”
― Daniel Jones, Shadow Gods

“After all, love is for people who are ready to dream big and risk everything. Unfortunately, so is prison.”
― Daniel Jones, Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject

“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s
“Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are more traditional works of short fiction. All three explore a different aspect of gay life, and are subtly crafted stories
that engage and challenge the reader’s imagination and intellect.''
- .”
― Daniel Jones Books in Canada Brief Reviews Fiction. February 1994.

“Vulnerability is what love is about... Only when we open ourselves to the possibility of loss can we allow for the possibility of love.”
― Daniel Jones

“Getting closer to the truth is the result of hard work. Truth-seeking means analyzing presuppositions and propositions. It means criticizing evidence as harshly as possible, scouring it from all angles to see how it stands up. We must scrutinize each claim on the table, using each tool available to determine if our acceptance of these claims is justified or not, then forcing ourselves to truly follow the responsible conclusions. If this kind of commitment to truth-seeking is sincere, and if the rules of reasonableness are adhered to, there is hope of productive dialogue between Christians and their opponents.”
― Daniel Jones, Shadow Gods