J. Mark Bertrand > Quotes

“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“For modern people the pursuit of wisdom sounds like something you'd have to travel to Tibet for. To us, wisdom is mystical and esoteric. It conjures up images of cave-dwelling hermits, saffron-robed monks, and, well, Yoda.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“... we met with more closed doors than open ones -- and the people who answered our knocks were invariably older. Young people didn't aswner the door to strangers, who would undoubtedly be trying to sell something, any more than they would answer the telephone to telemarketers once Caller ID came along. The only people we encountered going door-to-door were the ones old enough to remember when that's the way the world worked.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more thrapeutic than pious, more attuned to self-expression than self-denial. It is now fashionable to talk about God, though it is still deeply unfashionable to believe in him.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“feeling like a paratrooper about to jump, knowing my chute was packed by people who don’t care how hard I land.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Back on Murder

“enough to summon Tommy down to assist. His repertoire of life skills, augmented by the time he spent in Africa, no doubt includes the function of generators. But I’d better wait at least until”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Back on Murder

“Looks like a hit on a local loan shark,” I say. “A guy by the name of Octavio”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Back on Murder

“The Christian publishing world has embraced the safe over the good”
― J. Mark Bertrand

“In the kitchen, Sergeant Nixon’s not on the door, but I spot him outside shadowing my supervisor, Lt. Marcus Bascombe. Black. Six foot four.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Pattern of Wounds