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“The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.”
― Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

“But don’t come around here with your Good Samaritan cosplay bullshit.”
― Jonathan Dee, Sugar Street

“Love, but not the sensuous fire that burns, scorches and tortures, that inflicts more wounds than it cures—flaring up now, at the next moment being extinguished, leaving behind more coldness and loneliness than was felt before. Rather, love that lies like a soft but firm hand on the ailing beings, ever unchanged in its sympathy, without wavering, unconcerned with any response it meets. Love that is comforting coolness to those who burn with the fire of suffering and passion; that is life-giving warmth to those abandoned in the cold desert of loneliness, to those who are shivering in the frost of a loveless world; to those whose hearts have become as if empty and dry by the repeated calls for help, by deepest despair.”
― Nyanaponika Thera, The Four Sublime States and the Practice of Loving Kindness

“The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World