Roger Messner

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“If we remove the dulling effects of the nineteen centuries that had passed, and make ourselves contemporaries with Christ and his little band of apostles, we might restore the difficulty, the trauma, the great paradox of Christ’s appearance which requires us to fit together both a divine and a human nature, the creator of the universe and the babe born in a manger.”
― John D. Caputo, Truth: Philosophy in Transit

“would you rather stand before God as a learned theologian who is full of pride or an unlearned man with a head full of superstition who worships in spirit and in truth?”
― John D. Caputo, Truth: Philosophy in Transit

“It is hard to get a good perspective on marriage. We all see it through the inevitably distorted lenses of our own experience.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God