Quotes from sermon 'The Human Schedule'

Quotes from yesterday's sermon "The Human Schedule," first in the series 'He Makes Me Lie Down': The Rest of the Christian Life. Some of these I didn't actually get around to using, but they fit well. 


"Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers." – Anon     

“We are embedded in time but time is also embedded in us....[We are created] to live rhythmically in the rhythms of creation."  Eugene Peterson (his whole section on Creation in 'Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places' is excellent).


 “I cannot make the universe obey me.” - Thomas Merton

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin." – C. S. Lewis

[This is from the Atlantic article describing the cell phone going off in the middle of Wynton Marsalis' final phrase of his solo trumpet piece.  After the cell rings out, interrupting Marsalis...]
"People started giggling and picking up their drinks. The moment—the whole performance—unraveled...Marsalis paused for a beat, motionless, and his eyebrows arched. I scrawled on a sheet of notepaper, MAGIC, RUINED. The cell-phone offender scooted into the hall as the chatter in the room grew louder. Still frozen at the microphone, Marsalis replayed the silly cell-phone melody note for note. Then he repeated it, and began improvising variations on the tune. The audience slowly came back to him. In a few minutes he resolved the improvisation—which had changed keys once or twice and throttled down to a ballad tempo—and ended up exactly where he had left off..."