Melanie

“I do believe that this age, while bearing so many analogies to those that have passed represents a uniquely challenging time because of the coincidence of plastic people and a liquid world.”
― Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

“All that remains now is to offer some reflection on possible futures and possible responses to the cultural condition in which we find ourselves and in which we are all to some extent complicit.”
― Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

“He found himself wishing he could go back and start again and do everything differently. But time was the worst thing; time, it seemed to him now, was the only thing you couldn't change; whatever you did, it kept coming.”
― Carys Davies, Clear

“We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births. For time is told also by life. As some depart, others come. The hand opened in farewell remains open in welcome. I, who once had grandparents and parents, now have children and grandchildren. Like the flowing river that is yet always present, time that is always going is always coming. And time that is told by death and birth is held and redeemed by love, which is always present. Time, then, is told by love’s losses, and by the coming of love, and by love continuing in gratitude for what is lost. It is folded and enfolded and unfolded forever and ever, the love by which the dead are alive and the unborn welcomed into the womb. The great question for the old and the dying, I think, is not if they have loved and been loved enough, but if they have been grateful enough for love received and given, however much. No one who has gratitude is the onliest one. Let us pray to be grateful to the last.”
― Wendell Berry, Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print)) by Berry, Wendell (2007) Hardcover