“This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What I know of spirit is astir in the world. The god I have always expected to appear at the woods' edge,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Invariably the failure of organized religions, by which they cut themselves off from mystery and therefore from sanctity, lies in the attempt… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
“The encrusted religious structure is not changed by its institutional dependents--they are part of the crust. It is changed by one who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In Port William, more than anyplace else I had been, this religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
