“In the abyss of our consciousness, we are oblivious to the billions of possibilities surrounding us, our universe is limited by the unfathomable expense of our limitations; we are prisoners of ourselves, not that we want to escape, but we are tied up nonetheless. Our horizon does not extend beyond the eyes of our mind. - On Our Vision”
Source: Awakening
“Objectivity is a false god, and the worship of this idol is particularly pernicious in disciplines like journalism and history. It is not possible to be objective----although of course it is possible to be honest. By pretending to attain to objectivity, a writer's fundamental faith commitments are not eliminated, but rather submerged----and they then come out in interesting and intellectually dishonest ways.”
Source: Black and Tan: Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America
“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then.”
Source: Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale – A Fresh Look at the Many Dimensions of God and Humanity
“She was at least seventy, tall, withered, and angular, with white hair arranged in old-fashioned sausage curls on her temples. She was dressed in the quaint and clumsy style of the wandering Englishwoman, like a person to whom clothes were a matter of complete indifference; she was eating an omelette and drinking water.”
Source: 88 More Stories
“What the younger generations don’t have are
letters.” … “Why bother when you can e-mail,
phone or text.” … “As we contact each other
more and more”, … “there is, oddly, nothing
to show for it.”
Source: The View From Here: Life At Seventy
“Am I going to be here when I'm seventy? he wondered. Creaking around, gumming my dinner, haunting the place like some ghostly old fart?”
Source: The Tea Rose
“Your cold looks and angry sulk don’t change anything, you are my whole world.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“He didn’t know how to feel—until him.”
Source: Between Masks
“Your anger is fun and sulk is love. I shall ever love you.”
“When you sulk, you create ice; when you smile, you create fire!”