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“Deep and mature friendship does not mean that we keep looking each other in the eyes, constantly impressed or enraptured by each other’s beauty, talents, and gifts, but it does mean that together we look at the one who calls us to a life of service.”
― Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation
― Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation
“there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry ‘Mine!”
― Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground
― Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground
“People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.”
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
“An artist who is inspired is being obvious.”
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
“One of Origen’s arguments for the truth of Christianity was that while philosophy had only made the elite good, Christianity had lifted people of all levels of society and of every different type and race to a “philosophical” way of life. . . . Just as male needs female, rich needs poor, white needs black, so intellectuals need the simple. . . . The church is itself when it bridges all these gaps and tensions between people of different kinds.”
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
― Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
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