“With that, Radavic swiveled his head and looked straight at Rourke with what he thought was a steely, gray-eyed gaze, like in those TV legal-office drama shows, at an especially tense moment when one of the handsome actors rivets another handsome actor with an unshakable and hardened resolve and says, ‘Dammit, Trevor, this is our …
Forgiveness in Marriage
“We must deal with the fact that marriage means marriage of a sinner to a sinner . . . in order to deal with sin rightly, we have to understand forgiveness, and anyone who wants to be married in this fallen world without understanding forgiveness is frankly out of his mind” (For a Glory and …
Staggering into the Truth
“This was not so much a penetrating flash of insight as it was — to use a term popular with clinical psychologists who have studied this kind of thing — a lucky guess. A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while” (Evangellyfish, p. 160).
Rendering the Right Thing
“And keep in mind that if are not being diligent to render what God says to render, then it will probably be a matter of mere days before you are rendering the opposite. By this I mean caustic acid from husbands instead of warm affection, and castrating disrespect from wives instead of honor” (For a …
Quietly Ignored
“A certain kind of life always goes back to high school, a fact often overlooked by otherwise insightful biographers. Grown-up life is just a continuation of high school, a fact overlooked by everyone else” (Evangellyfish, p. 159).
Two Orientations
“Man was made to tend the garden, while woman was made to tend the man” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 91).
Which Rarely Happens in Nature
“His long fingers were splayed, hands together, fingertip to fingertip, as though a spider were sideways on a mirror, doing push-ups in an agitated manner” (Evangellyfish, p. 157).
Two Kinds of Equality
“Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of equality are about as comparable as dry and wet. Think of it in terms of ten teenage boys trying to dunk a basketball: equity means that they all face the same ten-foot standard, …
Not Too Gooby
“Stacey was trying to figure out a way to communicate something along the lines of ‘my hero’ without sounding too gooby. She like Keith about as much as Keith liked Mindy, and knew she was a little behind Mindy in a race that Mindy wasn’t even in, and so she had to play it cool. …
Sanctified Ambition
“Jesus does not say that we are to rip out the chief seats in the synagogues, but rather how to relate to them. He does not teach us to get rid of seats of honor at banquets — He teaches us how to get into them. He does not say that it is wrong to …