The Tenth Parallel Quotes

“Religious strife where Christians and Muslims meet is real, and grim, but the long history of everyday encounter, of believers of different kinds shouldering all things together, even as they follow different faiths, is no less real.”
― Eliza Griswold, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

“Reverend Abdu bore his several identities, and all their contradictions, in a single skin. It wasn't relativism: his convictions went deeper than that... Such labels seemed ultimately unimportant to him because he did not belong to himself, or to this world, at all; he belonged to God.”
― Eliza Griswold, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

“That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.”
― Eliza Griswold, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam