Finding Beauty in a Broken World
I am trying to prepare the discussion for this book, which will appear on the RevGals blog on Monday. I have over three pages of quotes....
and a sermon I wrote about refugees from Rwanda and preached on Pentecost 2008.
Here are a few quotes from the book:
Page 264: It is so easy to spiral into fear toward paranoia. We become the terror that possess us.
Page 253 Compromise is fine on anything that is not essential, but you cannot compromise your principles. You cannot compromise the dream or the dream dies, and you suffer spiritually.
Page 249: The full range of emotion: A bag of skulls, a bag of potatoes, both tilled from the same fields.
Page 248: I I hear William Coffin’s voice: “The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
Page 228: If you do violence to me, you do violence to yourself because we are all human beings.
Page 167: I close my eyes. Two images emerge: one man spitting on the prairie dog on the side of the road and Sarah pressing her lips against the dying prairie dog baby’s lips as she gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Page 155 Never postpone gratitude. Ingratitude robs of enthusiasm. Albert Schweitzer
Page 88: If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
Page 18: I believe in the beauty of all things broken.
Page 6: A mosaic is a conversation between what is broken.
and a sermon I wrote about refugees from Rwanda and preached on Pentecost 2008.
Here are a few quotes from the book:
Page 264: It is so easy to spiral into fear toward paranoia. We become the terror that possess us.
Page 253 Compromise is fine on anything that is not essential, but you cannot compromise your principles. You cannot compromise the dream or the dream dies, and you suffer spiritually.
Page 249: The full range of emotion: A bag of skulls, a bag of potatoes, both tilled from the same fields.
Page 248: I I hear William Coffin’s voice: “The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
Page 228: If you do violence to me, you do violence to yourself because we are all human beings.
Page 167: I close my eyes. Two images emerge: one man spitting on the prairie dog on the side of the road and Sarah pressing her lips against the dying prairie dog baby’s lips as she gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Page 155 Never postpone gratitude. Ingratitude robs of enthusiasm. Albert Schweitzer
Page 88: If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
Page 18: I believe in the beauty of all things broken.
Page 6: A mosaic is a conversation between what is broken.
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