the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.
Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of equality are about as comparable as dry and wet. Think of it in terms of ten teenage boys t...
I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I fill you with Naming. Be! Be, butterfly and behemoth, be galaxy and grasshopper, star and sparrow, you matter, you are, be! Be caterpillar and c...
When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then....
At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling wi...
A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in t...
Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!
She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.
Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.
I glory in the emotionally commonplace
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.
I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
