Mark Einselen

“and Bagger, already weighed down in mud and blood, further heavies in the dreary certainty that the shriek won't ever end, just like the war won't ever end, like the carnage won't ever end, it's a sentence in a book careening without periods, gasping with too many commas, a sentence that, one begun, can't ever be stopped, a sentence doomed to loop back on itself to form a terrible black wheel that, sooner or later, will drag each and every person to their grave,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“The relation between chastening and chastity is obvious. "The affections, being God's gifts, are not to be crushed; nevertheless, they must be purified and regulated." They must be purified from selfishness, and probably none know until they take themselves seriously in hand, how few drops of pure affection they can distill from a great accumulation of self-pleasing.”
― Sister Frances Anna C.S.M., A Garden Enclosed: Practical Studies in Religious Life

“The champions have better bikes, more expensive shoes, many more pairs of cycling shorts than we do, but they have the same roads.”
― Tim Krabbé, The Rider

“Working men and women, in the din of shops or the clamor of tenement homes, have scant time to pray, but they know and claim their share in the prayers of those who are set apart to pray seven times a day. If all cannot do it, surely it is well that some can.”
― Sister Frances Anna C.S.M., A Garden Enclosed: Practical Studies in Religious Life