Quote by Walter Wangerin Jr

“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

“He went wordless, and wordless he sat beside her. He knew the size of her sorrow.”

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“Her ballad did nothing to make the serpants lovely. Her ballad hid nothing of their dread. But the music itself spoke of faith and…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“WELL, THEN SHAG IT, YOU SUITCASE! GET OVER HERE!”

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“I agreed Paul knew his limits. But I never believed he'd choose to live within them.”

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“But the talk of dialogue involves the work of knowing, acknowledging the other, of shaping speech toward him, for her. It is neither done…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“Volunteering" also honours the sort of work your spouse is obliged to do if you choose cheerfully to do it for him or her.…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“In the bedroom the truer, unpremeditated behavior of intimacy appears, the way this spouse relates to others on the most personal level, body to…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the continued dependability,…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This takes s…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“For what was your gesture? An act of pure love for Jesus particularly. It was an act so completely focused upon the Christ that…

— Walter Wangerin Jr