9 quotes
My brother is now seventy. His hands are burled with arthritis. Some days he walks with difficulty.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
Q: Why do I stay in the Catholic Church?
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
Nineteenth-century California rewarded only a few of its brotherhood, but it rewarded them as deliriously as an ancient king in an ancient myth would reward.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
L.A. likes to think of Las Vegas as the populuxe mirage of Hollywood, a place where middle-class tourists look like movie stars but aren’t, spend like millionaires but aren’t.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
Americans experience time in two distinct ways—as religious people and as people of no religion. Just so, we experience ourselves as a historical people and as people who are not implicated by history.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
When Cesar Chavez died in his sleep in 1993, not yet a very old man at sixty-six, he died—as he had so often portrayed himself in life—as a loser.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
No Chavez speech I have read or heard approaches the rhetorical brilliance of the Protestant ministers of the black civil rights
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
The paradox of monotheism is that the desert God, refuting all other gods, demands acknowledgment within emptiness. The paradox of monotheism is that there is no paradox—only unfathomable singularity
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
The prospect of a generation of American children being raised by women in homes without fathers is challenging for religious institutions whose central conception of deity is father, whose central conception of church is family, whose only conception of family is heterosexual.
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)