'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.
Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
