P 86 Quotes

“Sometimes I only pretend I don’t know what to do, because I don’t want to do it.”
― Anne Bogel, Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life

“Faith cannot guarantee factual truth. But faith can and must interpret the meaning of facts from the point of view of man's ultimate concern. In doing so it transfers historical truth into the dimension of the truth of faith.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.”
― William Stringfellow, A Private and Public Faith

“Oh!’ Queenie breathed in sharply. She was staring at the far end of the cellar now, where a clock hung precariously on the wall. Like the one upstairs in the shop, it wasn’t working. Even more peculiar was the time it’d stopped – ten past two – was exactly the same. It couldn’t be a coincidence, surely.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse