What Susan Said

atelian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:20:22 +0000

Due to time limitations and lack of quote material, What Susan Said will be indefinitely discontinued. If you’ve enjoyed this blog, leave a comment and let me know; maybe you’ll change my mind. If you want to send me some quotes, email me at aarontelian(at)gmail.com and I would be delighted to post them here.

Long live words, and especially pith. In principio erat verbum.

atelian — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:36:15 +0000

Some said it thundered twice each
day at the precise and awful moment
that they broke his hands. Yet
it never thundered on the plains
–only in the highlands.

-Calvin Miller, The Song, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1977), 14

atelian — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:36:02 +0000

We are drawn to stories because our own life is a story and we are looking for help.

-Daniel Taylor, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 407

atelian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:18:05 +0000

It takes a breeze
to make a banner speak.

-Calvin Miller, The Song, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1977), 35

atelian — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:16:52 +0000

Everyman ate the crushed bread and remembered the machine where the Prince of Planets bled. He never tore the wounded loaves but that he swallowed hard in joy.

-Calvin Miller, The Song, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1977), 92

atelian — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:15:40 +0000

“O clap your hands
you dying heads of state!
His love will come to cleanse
the practiced hate
of fallen Terra.”

-Calvin Miller, The Song, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1977), 22

atelian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:13:13 +0000

I find, for some odd psychological reason, that I can deal better with a man’s exercise of freewill if I believe that he has got it.

-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Ch. 9

atelian — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:03:54 +0000

Never was it one but
always three.
Never was it three but
always one.
Claiming boldly it would
always be–
Yet crying out it never
had begun.

-Calvin Miller, The Song, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1977), 38

atelian — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:46:03 +0000

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

-Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island, (Barnes & Noble Books, 2003), 3

atelian — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:43:46 +0000

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

-Phillip Yancey