"I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it."

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Source : Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

Parker J. Palmer

#Mean Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.”
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”
“A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.”
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
“Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.”
“Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.”
“You have to have patience in this field.”
“My son is a hip-hop producer.”

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