“We articulate our fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.”
“We articulate out fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.”
“God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. ”
“Obviously, children die every day, and it is surely conceivable to every one of us that one of our children will pre-decease us. Nevertheless, it is the thing we most fear. It is the thing we in modern medicine devote our greatest energy toward preventing. In modern times, it still seems to most of us that the death of a child is a gross violation of the pact we have with our God. He gives us children. We should, therefore, be allowed to raise them. That is the natural order of the world.”
“The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.”
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.”