So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can’t gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It’s not navigation but dreaming.

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the...

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that...

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing...

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn’t even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

God said to him [Eblis], ‘You have become proud.’ He replied, ‘If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw’st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn’t have the nerve.Three days in and they’ve got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only...

Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain” (Ps. 76:10).

How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell,Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said “I am of fire, while Adam is of clay.”Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just...

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in...

The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution from...

This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze.

Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like...

The closer we get—the more I let you in…the more dangerous this gets. We’re just pawns in this game, and I wasn’t playing before. I was just a piece to move about the board, but...

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

But God does not neglect his lost creature. He plans to re-create his image in man, to recover his first delight in his handiwork. He is seeking in it his own image so that he...

We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as he reveals to us our personal relationship with him as...

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

As we reread Genesis 2…we immediately understand WHAT is ‘crafty’ about the serpent’s question in Genesis 3. God did NOT in fact say in Genesis 2, ‘You MUST NOT EAT from any tree in the...