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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65b5ed5 | American writers were still content to describe an ironic culture when they should be showing the way out. | D.T. Max | ||
| 7c102a2 | He told his roommate that when he was writing, "I can't feel my ass in the chair." | D.T. Max | ||
| f9c5441 | He found Fraden, the department head, exactly how he hoped she'd be. They soon had a standing date to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer every Tuesday night at her house. As | D.T. Max | ||
| 67cbda2 | He found he was popular, known for a loose style and an appealing willingness to digress. "We spend most of our time talking about Twin Peaks and The Simpsons so they think I am an okay caballero," he told Markson." | D.T. Max | ||
| 1d3d4e3 | A publisher sent him a galley of a novel by a writer he had barely heard of, one that impressed him deeply and seemed to embody all the literary qualities he had called for in his "fictional Futures" essay. The book was Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City. Set in St. Louis, it mixed postmodernism and traditional storytelling and showed a familiarity its chosen city that Wallace could only marvel it. it decanted a Pynchonesque conspiracy in me.. | jonathan-franzen | D.T. Max | |
| 68db123 | centerless pop-culture country full of marginalized subnations that are themselves postmodern, looped, self-referential, self-obsessed, voyeuristic, passive, slack-jawed, debased. | D.T. Max | ||
| ac4498d | Primatologists Richard Wrandham and Dale Peterson summarize... writing, 'Chimpanzee-like violence preceded and paved the way for human war, making modern humans the dazed survivors of a continuous 5-million-year habit of lethal aggression. | human-nature | Cacilda Jethá | |
| 8f78a02 | I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life" (5.3.57-58)." | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 13186cc | Some hopeless people who anticipate only death cite Scripture that says "I desire to depart and be with Christ" (Phil. 1:23). But Christ is not what hopeless people really want. The God-talk is misleading. The goal of hopelessness is to end the suffering, and if God happens to be there when it happens, fine. But God's presence is not essential." | Edward T. Welch | ||
| c94581e | We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord)." --Edward T. Welch" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 6383e0e | You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1781220 | Many depressed people have been hurt and rejected by others. They feel as though basic relational needs have not been met, and they will be stuck in depression until they are. Rejection from parents, spouses, or friends has left a profound emptiness that feels like an emotional handicap. What does this have to do with the heart? Consider first the example of Jesus. He is God, but he was truly human. If anything is clear from his life, he di.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d37dba6 | The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 3ee3d72 | When psychological needs, rather than sin, are seen as our primary problem, not only is our self-understanding affected, but the gospel itself is changed. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 63fb503 | Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart? | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 93c00a4 | Now listen more carefully to depression. Like all feelings, it is a kind of language. Guilt says, "I am wrong." Anger says, "You are wrong." Fear says, "I am in danger." Depression, too, has a message, but the message is usually not that simple. "Whereas some emotions are clear and unambiguous, depression's language is more heavily encrypted. It might take some decoding before it is understandable, but it is worth the effort. RECONSTRUCTING.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 3c9cbc2 | You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 21f1f92 | Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optimistic; others despair. Some shake their fist at God; others quietly submit. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure. Throughout | Edward T. Welch | ||
| bf1fa86 | On earth, however, God doesn't prescribe a happy life. Look at some of the Psalms. They are written by people of great faith, yet they run the emotional gamut. One even ends with "darkness is my closest friend" (Ps. 88:18). When your emotions feel muted or always low, when you are unable to experience the highs and lows you once did, the important question is not "How can I figure out what I have done wrong?" but it is, "Where do I turn--or.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 9f5aebe | God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e1dfd7d | Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 910763e | Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy. Does | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 8552873 | When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7a268e3 | Holy means God cannot be compared to anyone else. He certainly cannot be likened to the worst person you know. He cannot even be compared to the best. His love and faithfulness endure forever. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 6bc6ecc | Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d2da1e2 | You feel like an outcast. You don't belong. You feel naked. While everyone else is walking around with their clothes on, you feel exposed and vulnerable. You are seen, and what others see is not pretty. You feel unclean. Something is wrong with you. You are dirty. Even worse, you are contaminated. There is a difference between being a bit muddy and harboring a deadly, contagious virus. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 3feb232 | We crave autonomy. Autonomy is closely linked to arrogance. They are both expressions of human pride, but autonomy suggests that we want to be separate from more than over. We want to establish the rules rather than submit to the lordship of the living God. This was the essence of Adam's original sin. We want to interpret the world according to our system of thought. We want to establish our own parallel universe, separate from God's. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 3c191d4 | In this classic reversal of reality, we do not stand before him, but the King stands before us. We question him; he doesn't question us. The irony of it all! While the name of the Lord was constantly blasphemed by men, Jesus is now accused of being a blasphemer (Matthew 26:65). Talk about a primitive form of defense--projecting your guilt onto another. Could it be any clearer that Jesus had come to the anti-kingdom, where everything was the.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1b05146 | there is an important difference between embarrassment and shame. Whatever caused your embarrassment has been experienced by everyone else too, at one point or another. Your sense of social isolation was fleeting. Within the hour--or decade--you laugh about it. With shame, you never laugh at it. It feels like unending embarrassment, but it is more than that. Embarrassment doesn't afflict the core of the person's soul, but shame becomes your.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1eb4b16 | The gospel is only available to people who know they are unclean. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1bbd914 | It is one thing to die. It is another thing for an innocent person to die for a guilty one. It is something much more that Jesus would take on himself all the curses the world deserved in concentrated form. This meant that his relationship with his Father, the one thing that had sustained him throughout all the previous insults and rejection, was about to be removed. Moses knew he could not lead the people through the wilderness unless God .. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 55cc4e4 | Watch them as they sit in the filth of their daily lives. Watch them as they hear rumors of someone who cares and has power. Watch them stand up when they receive news that Jesus is approaching. Watch their steps quicken when they hear the crowd. Watch them become an unstoppable force when they see him. Don't get in the way of someone who is both desperate and hopeful when the King is near. These are the men and women of faith. Join them. D.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 41fb39f | Ako povredis nekog drugog,povredio si sebe. Ako pomognes drugome,pomazes sebi. Krv i kost nalaze se u svim ljudima. Razlikujemo se po srcu i nameri. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 2b1f44d | Depression: What depressed person doesn't think of himself or herself as a miserable, unredeemable failure? Anger: As in "STAY AWAY or you will see me, and what you see won't be pretty." Look for the paradoxical combination of self-loathing and arrogant judgment. Men are specialists at this. Anorexia: The deep logic of anorexia is that you are unworthy and deserve nothing, so you give yourself nothing. If you give yourself nothing, p.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 89990c9 | Jesus freely placed your interest above his own. His desire was to elevate your status; in the process he lowered his own. He gave you the royal treatment: he works, you benefit. And you must accept this treatment. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| aee7cf2 | Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| ddf4574 | There is something about uncleanness that asks for blood. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 2676b18 | The first steps out of shame will be the hardest. These are the anti-denial steps in which we will put shame into words. You can't do battle with something nameless, and too often shame eludes accurate identification. So we will search for words that bring shame out into the open, where it can be seen and fought against. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d998f5b | You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e15aefe | Everything turns inward in depression. A beautiful flower momentarily catches your attention, but within seconds the focus bends back into your own misery. You see loved ones who are celebrating a recent blessing, but before you can synchronize your feelings with theirs, you have doubled back to your own personal emptiness. Like a boomerang that always returns, no matter how hard you try, you can't get away from yourself. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| c12b8c8 | When we first listen to depression, we find that the misery is consuming. It doesn't point anywhere or say anything. It just is. But when we keep listening, it tells stories of loss, rejection, or other events that happened to the person. It speaks of identifiable physiological problems. It points to a culture of irony: the culture with the most peace, money, and leisure is also the one with the most malignant sadness. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 8fe18fb | Depressed people avoid people and church commitments, but they can also complain about abject isolation. The answer is to humbly accept your purpose. "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching" (Heb. 10:25). Churches are not perfect. How could they be when we are the church? But the Spirit is with the gathering of his people. Chur.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 18500c6 | Think about the nature of depression. Life is turned inward. You already have a sense that, for all practical purposes, God is not present. Add to that your relentless condemnation and pervasive self-criticism, which have persuaded you that God doesn't love you. You couldn't be a more obvious spiritual target if you painted a bull's-eye on your chest. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| c56ac40 | Shame lives in the community, though the community can feel like a courtroom. It says, "You don't belong--you are unacceptable, unclean, and disgraced" because "You are wrong, you have sinned" (guilt), or "Wrong has been done to you" or "You are associated with those who are disgraced or outcast." The shamed person feels worthless, expects rejection, and needs cleansing, fellowship, love, and acceptance." | Edward T. Welch |