Quotes About Radicality

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

I glimpse again that biblical rhythm of expansion-and-contraction, assertion-and-subversion. As that rhythm becomes ever clearer as the very heartbeat of the biblical tradition, we will see the basic solution for How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Read it all carefully and thoughtfully, recognize radicality's assertion, expect normalcy's subversion, and respect the honesty of a story that tells the truth.

Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe...No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

The radicality of the universal lies in its imperceptibility.

He suddenly felt a pain that was as violent as if it were real. Existence, similar to the stucco angel whose extremities meet in a curved mirror, comes back, almost by necessity, to a state of radicality and silence. The ideal existence is the one that lasts long enough to come back to this point of origin. Those who forge straight ahead will never know where they have come from.

It is not a question of conferring some kind of positivity on thought, since its operation is precisely to detract from the truth and the legitimacy of existence. And radicality doubtless has no other function than to provide an added bonus of pleasure.

Radicality is an end-of-career privilege.

Pero Fernando Vallejo, con su dominio del idioma, su radicalidad y su constante sentido del humor, es mucho más: es el hombre que rompió el nudo gordiano de un silencio centenario, el hombre que convirtió nuestra más antigua cadena, el lenguaje, en un instrumento de libertad.