Corbin Wright’s Reviews > A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph > Status Update

“…unpressured time—time to sit on stone walls, time to see beauty, time to stare as long as sheep and cows.”

“We wished to know, to savour, to sink in—into the heart of the experience—to possess it wholly.”

“…So we laughed and joked and poured out the wine but challenged their minds and souls. And the students smiled and abandoned the solemn voices they had been taught to use in speaking about such things, gaily drinking the wine and discovering a Christ who was a blazing reality.”

“We know it’s love that keeps a love secure,
And only by love of love can love endure,
For self’s a killer, reckless of the cost,
And loves of lilactime unloved are lost”

“To be in love, as to see beauty, is a kind of adoring that turns the lover away from self.”

“We talked about the good life, the life without the pressure of time.”

15 pages in and this is delightful.
“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
“What is beauty but something that is responded to with emotion?”
“Sometimes they would walk as much as twenty miles, or ride even further, and then come home to dive into the pool, not bothering with suits, and eat an enormous breakfast.”