Category Archives: Quote
Kurt Vonnegut: Everything Good As New
Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. He went into the living toom, swinging the bottle like a dinner bell, turned on the television. He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about [...]
Jeff Crump: Mesmerized by the Promise
Three quotes this week. They all share a common theme despite their diverse sources.
Marketers know what we want. There is hardly an industrial-grade fast-food burger that is not advertised with images of dewy, plump tomatoes, wholesome bread straight from the oven, some kind of premium beef. The reality of flaccid vegetable matter, a soggy bun [...]
Rich Mullins: Closeness to God
I’m all the time being asked by people, “How do you feel closer to God?” And I kind of always want to say, “I don’t know.” When I read the lives of most of the great saints, they didn’t necessarily feel very close to God. When I read the Psalms I get the feeling like [...]
Kurt Vonnegut: The Only Kind of Job an American Can Get
They rode in silence for a while, and then the driver made another good point. He said he knew that his truck was turning the atmosphere into poison gas, and that the planet was being turned into pavement so his truck could go anywhere. “So I’m committing suicide,” he said.
“Don’t worry about it,” said Trout.
“My [...]
St. John Chrysostom: How Then Can They Believe?
Do you wish to honour the body of Christ? Do not ignore him when he is naked. Do not pay him homage in the temple clad in silk, only then to neglect him outside where he is cold and ill-clad. He who said: “This is my body” is the same who said: “You saw me [...]
Greg Boyd: Fighting the Right Enemy
Jesus’ life and his death was one sustained act of love toward people, and therefore it was one sustained act of revolt against the powers. … Jesus always treats human beings as victims. He never blames anybody for the infirmity that they have. Even if it was caused or influenced by demonic power, he never [...]
John Kavanaugh: No End of Gratitude
If we could count the fears, both great and small, that once hounded us, and then thank God for each dread outcome that never materialized, we would reach no end of gratitude.
—John Kavanaugh in America, vol. 173 no. 10 (7 October 1995), p. 23
Kurt Vonnegut: Chaos to Order
I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with his meaningless pictures had entered into a conspiracy with millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading [...]
Leo Tolstoy: You Preach, But How Do You Live?
“What about you, Lev Nikolayevich, you preach very well, but do you carry out what you preach?” This is the most natural of questions and one that is always asked of me; it is usually asked victoriously, as though it were a way of stopping my mouth. “You preach, but how do you live?” And [...]
O Holy Night
O holy night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! O, hear the angel voices!
O night [...]
