“Of course, in order to practice this style of reading as an art, one thing is above all essential - something that today has been thouroughly forgotten… something for which one almost needs to be a cow, at any rate not a modern man - rumination.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), trans. by Ian Johnston
“…They [preachers] were always pointing out how great the specific church was. The bulletin read like a brochure from Amway. They were always saying how life-changing some conference was going to be. Life-changing? What does that mean? It sounded very suspicious. I wish they would just tell it to me straight rather than trying to sell me on everything. I felt like I got bombarded with commercials all week and then went to church and got even more.”
- Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (2003), p.131