"But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us."

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Source : "The Moment: A Novel".

Douglas Kennedy

#Light Quotes #Profound Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.”
“nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
“The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.”
“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
“Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.”

Source : David J. Bosch (1991). “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission”, p.381, Orbis Books
“Fuuuuuuck......No'One....”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”

Source : Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.232, Vintage

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