I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.
David James DuncanAs a lifelong student of the worldโs wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that โridding the world of evilโ is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.
David James DuncanThe fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the โsigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.โ I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James DuncanI wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.
David James DuncanAnyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.
David James Duncan