'Heard: The Week in Quotes (vol 13)

So, in last night's post I referred to myself as pretty self-absorbed, which I stand by. As evidence, I present to you an edition of 'Heard packed with me quoting myself. I looked through my handy dandy notebook, and these are some of the gems I found. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

I want so badly to be good enough, but I'm mostly certain I'm not.

-- Me

[appearing under the first line of Psalm 23]
I wish that I could get to believing that in a life affecting way.

-- Me

[from an account of my jury duty experience which was originally going to make it on here but didn't]
8.54 am: We're watching a closed-captioned video called "A Jury of Your Peers." I think it's rather smug to have a closed-captioned musical note during songs.
[...]
10:34 am: They're showing some movie with a bunch of Inuit, a polar bear cub, two annoying kids, and Charlton Heston. And we're all just sitting here in this big room with diffused lights, all staring the same direction, exhibiting various expressions of despair and gloom.

-- Me

A life lived in tension: made from dirt in the image of God.

-- Me

The transcendent Truth is beyond the limitation of a human's understanding of fact; as soon as we factualize something, we both contain and control it. With the living and Most High God, such control is impossible.

-- Me (for English 305; I don't normally think)