Wendell Berry https://t.co/2VJSaU1Mby
It is what is feared by the rabbit that cannot ultimately escape the hounds.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
(I find myself thinking of Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Display embodies beauty and expressiveness often united with a zany grace.
Robert Bly • Iron John
But the most famous familiar one is the story where things fall apart, and how this culturally stable setting with your coherence and just the attempt of the protagonist trying to live true to those moral demands on his person creates trouble, which tells me, and I think, to any other reader, that the world is imbued with irony and paradox and comp... See more
For the Wild • Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD
Poems and quotations. The stereotypical three-points-and-a-poem sermon holds little promise for persuasive power in this age of low literary appreciation. The modern mental palate has little appreciation for difficult words, remote references, and high-blown speech.
Bryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
We often dull down our capacity for beauty because we cannot bear to stay awake for the atrocities that we encounter when we love fragile creatures. It requires so much courage and strength to endure love for the beauty of the world. As Galway Kinnell points out, love requires courage: “perhaps it is courage, and even perhaps only courage.”5