Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Forgetfulness 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… — James Carroll Breeze 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… — James Carroll Book 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… — James Carroll Italy 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… — James Carroll Arranging 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 Communication 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… — James Carroll Acknowledge 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… — James Carroll Air 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… — James Carroll Arranging 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… — James Carroll Catholic 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,"… — James Carroll Roman catholic church 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… — James Carroll Comfort Copy Share Image
