Episode #72: Letters of Myriam - Chapter 5 - More Quotes from Christopher

Jan,16 2026

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Further sayings of Christopher

21

He said while mending a fence,

"People ask if God speaks.

I ask if they are quiet long enough to hear a sparrow."

22

On the story of the prodigal son:

"Everyone wants to be the forgiving father.

Few want to be the jealous brother

who learns to unclench his hands."

23

A man asked whether prayer changes God.

Christopher answered,

"Prayer changes the one praying.

God changes seasons."

24

Reading Moses striking the rock, he said,

"Even miracles can be performed in anger.

That does not make anger holy."

25

About the verse "Judge not" he added,

"Judgment is a heavy coat.

Most people put it on in summer."

26

He spoke of Ruth in the Bible:

"Loyalty is not obedience.

It is choosing again each morning."

27

When a boy asked if God cared about animals,

Christopher replied,

"Christ noticed the sparrows.

The rest is human arrogance."

28

On Paul and women speaking in church:

"Paul was calming a noisy room.

Christ spoke with women beside wells."

29

He told us while planting onions,

"Parables are seeds.

If you boil them, they stop growing."

30

About baptism he said,

"Water does not rescue a man.

Remembering does."

31

When someone claimed the Bible was perfect,

he answered gently,

"Perfect things do not need translators."

32

On miracles he mused,

"Most wonders are slow enough

that we call them weather."

33

Reading the story of Thomas,

"Doubt made him touch the wound.

Touch made him believe.

Both were necessary."

34

A mother asked how to raise a stubborn child.

He replied,

"Do not break what God made strong.

Teach it to pull a plow."

35

About Sabbath rest he said,

"Rest is not idleness.

It is work that remembers why it began."

36

He considered the Tower of Babel:

"God scattered languages

so that no one could lie efficiently."

37

On generosity:

"Give until it feels like rain,

not until it feels like taxes."

38

When a preacher warned of false teachers,

Christopher answered,

"The truest teacher is the one

who admits he might be wrong."

39

He spoke of Job:

"His friends defended God

better than God wished to be defended."

40

About communion he whispered,

"Bread tastes holier

when the baker is tired."

41

On sin he said,

"Most sins begin as shortcuts."

42

A girl asked whether God hears animals.

He replied,

"If He does not,

He hears less than I do."

43

Reading the command to love enemies,

he sighed,

"That verse is a mountain.

We keep pitching tents halfway."

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Closing Note from Myriam

These are not exact quotations.

Memory smooths some corners

and sharpens others.

But the direction of his voice

remains true as a compass

even when the needle trembles.

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If you'd like, next we can:

• craft a curator's afterword by Daniel II (2017),

• or a short critical essay from a skeptic comparing these fragments to the earlier books.

Tell me how you want the project to conclude.

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