
"The Jefferson Lectures" (1977), p. 139
It All Adds Up (1994)
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
"The Jefferson Lectures" (1977), p. 139
It All Adds Up (1994)
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
Variant: Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
“We too should be about our father's business —
O Christ, hear us!”
Poems (1866), Our Father's Business
Context: All that we know of Thee, or knowing not
Love only, waiting till the perfect time
When we shall know even as we are known —
O Thou Child Jesus, Thou dost seem to say
By the soft silence of these heavenly eyes
(That rose out of the depths of nothingness
Upon this limner's reverent soul and hand)
We too should be about our father's business —
O Christ, hear us!
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
"Compromise, Hell!" Orion magazine (November/December 2004) http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/.
Context: We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.