I was listening to an older episode of This American Life on the way home from jury duty today and I liked this speech — so much, in fact, that I took the time to write it out when I got on the train. It’s from a very unexpected source, so read it and see [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Quick Quotes’
May 10, 2008
Quick Quotes for Saturday May 10
CS Lewis, God in the Dock:
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells [...]
April 15, 2008
Quick Quotes for Tuesday April 15
Anne Lamott on grace:
I know that grace meets you wherever you are, and doesn’t leave you where it found you.
From Laugh Lines:
And only in America can a 46-year-old black man who just finished paying off his student loans be called “elitist,” a 60-year-old woman who with her husband has earned $100 million dollars call herself [...]
