“Eurus thrashes, but Rutt holds on. She crushes the bones of his jaws and still holds on until he suffocates and dies.” — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“He went wordless, and wordless he sat beside her. He knew the size of her sorrow.” — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“Her ballad did nothing to make the serpants lovely. Her ballad hid nothing of their dread. But the music itself spoke of… — Walter Wangerin Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or… — Walter Wangerin Jr Old testament Copy Share Image
“I agreed Paul knew his limits. But I never believed he'd choose to live within them.” — Walter Wangerin Jr Limits Copy Share Image
“But the talk of dialogue involves the work of knowing, acknowledging the other, of shaping speech toward him, for her. It is… — Walter Wangerin Jr Communication Copy Share Image
“Volunteering" also honours the sort of work your spouse is obliged to do if you choose cheerfully to do it for him… — Walter Wangerin Jr Marriage Copy Share Image
“In the bedroom the truer, unpremeditated behavior of intimacy appears, the way this spouse relates to others on the most personal level,… — Walter Wangerin Jr Habits Copy Share Image
“And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the… — Walter Wangerin Jr Confidence Copy Share Image
“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This… — Walter Wangerin Jr Freedom Copy Share Image
“For what was your gesture? An act of pure love for Jesus particularly. It was an act so completely focused upon the… — Walter Wangerin Jr Christianity Copy Share Image
“: “Behold the Rooster who suffers much more than he must. Ah, Chauntecleer, Chauntecleer. Why do you suffer today and tomorrow?” oozed… — Walter Wangerin Jr God Copy Share Image
“Almost as evil as the stench was the silence. Senex, however poorly he had ended his rule, had always remembered the canonical… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“Mutuality is accomplished by two whole persons; and if each partner truly intends to be but the fraction of a relationship (thinking… — Walter Wangerin Jr Marriage Copy Share Image
“When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a… — Walter Wangerin Jr Desire Copy Share Image
“That is what grace does. It comes as a surprise; it lingers in the rare atmosphere of love, since love itself is… — Walter Wangerin Jr Expression of love Copy Share Image
“True "volunteering," then, obeys no law, seeks no returns, pays no debts, plans no praise for yourself, nor proves your goodness” — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or… — Walter Wangerin Jr Old testament Copy Share Image
“But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two… — Walter Wangerin Jr Character Copy Share Image
“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives.… — Walter Wangerin Jr Children Copy Share Image
“Neither does she have a name--none that I could find even in my most persistent researches: Julian's gentle lady, I mean; she… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
