“Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.”
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.”
“The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.”
“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”
“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”