“He was the kind of man who was entirely unaccustomed to looking at lies from this end of the barrel. He was now counting the rounds in their chambers. He could see their pointed, silvery tips” (Evangellyfish, p. 137).
Inflated Enough to be the Ball
“Brittle pride is not masculine. The male ego is, I am afraid, famous. I have long felt that a pastor has no better diagnostic test for how his congregation is doing spiritually than to arrange a co-ed volleyball game and just watch . . . When the male ego is on a rampage, the only …
About Like That
“The rest of them were about as indignant as a room full of wet cats” (Evangellyfish, p. 133).
Just Plain Vanilla Difficult
“Many men think that they are being forthright and decisive when they are really just difficult to live with” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 72).
The Happy Kind
“There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That’s what junior high is for. And the earth would go around the sun ten entire times before he had finally met Cindi, who, as Puritans go, was as hot as it gets. And, John thought smugly to himself, for those who think that means …
Just the Opposite, Actually
“Blaming is not leadership” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 72).
Not Having a Vantage Point
“Mystic Union, despite the informative crystals hanging from her ears, was not really in a position to critique the value of Mr. Peaborne’s intelligence” (Evangellyfish, p. 126).
For All Time
“If it is important that the first woman came from the first man, it is also important (obviously) that every man since, from Cain on down, has been born of a woman. To anchor the point for all time, our Lord Jesus was born of a woman” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 69).
The Words Would Just Flow
“The physical activity of writing was nothing to him. When it came to pensive reflections of man and his existential condition (as mirrored in the experiences of Robert P.), foreign film reviews that were allowed to make as little sense as the films themselves, extended discussions of how the pert French breasts in those films …
Learning to be Glorious
“If a woman is a man’s glory, learning how to respond as a woman to a godly man is learning to be glorious” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 68).