“To mock the color of a man’s skin is to defy the handiwork of God.”
― Skin and Blood
― Skin and Blood
“Let us lament our own perversity, and say: “Lord, what a heart I have that
needs all this, so that none of this could be spared!”
― The Bruised Reed
needs all this, so that none of this could be spared!”
― The Bruised Reed
“he that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer.”
― Of Temptation
― Of Temptation
“We are starting to slide when we start to judge our brother’s motives by whether or not he experiences the same gut response of reactive compassion to the outrage we are assigned to deal with. But a Christian nurse in Romania who has dedicated herself to caring for abandoned orphans with birth defects may never have heard of Roe v. Wade. She doesn’t need to.”
― Skin and Blood
― Skin and Blood
“The smells in the forest were beyond all that he had ever conceived. To say that they made him feel hungry and thirsty would be misleading; almost, they created a new kind of hunger and thirst, a longing that seemed to flow over from the body into the soul and which was a heaven to feel. Again and again he stood still, clinging to some branch to steady himself, and breathed it all in, as if breathing had become a kind of ritual.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
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