I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natur...
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never e...
If there were no tears, our ribs would burn.
Our last garment is made without pockets.
This is not just "our" world.
But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.
Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.
Grief does not change you. It reveals you.
[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.
Most parents don't know really their children.
I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
When was the last good kiss you had?
A sequel that will exist just for us
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.
God is master architect of our lives.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.