Quotes by Raban, Jonathan

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and >>

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its rea >>

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may b >>

Quotations about Family

A small family is soon provided for. >>

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and m >>

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thin >>

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan