We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism...… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
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