Blinded Quotes

“I didn’t ask him why, if I was doing all the Lord asked, I’d just had a heart attack and how come my wife had left me and taken my son away from me a week before Thanksgiving. Why didn’t I ask the reverend? I supposed I didn’t want to hear him speak about faith and about God acting in mysterious ways. And I didn’t know whether or not I would have felt any better when we were done.

But my faith was weak right then, and I doubted it.

Reverend Prior must have sensed that misgivings were clouding my vision. He said, “Don’t make the mistake of measuring God’s love by the yardstick of your own life, Mr. Purdy.”

“What else do I have?” I asked.”
― Stephen White, Blinded

“Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.”
― Stephen White, Blinded

“Don’t make the mistake of measuring God’s love by the yardstick of your own life..." - Reverend Nathaniel Prior to Sam Purdy”
― Stephen White, Blinded