Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! Quotes

“Absolute independence is a false ideal,” argued the sociologist Robert Bellah, whose deep understanding of the invention of the modern self rarely missed the mark. “It delivers not the autonomy it promises but loneliness and vulnerability instead.”
― Kate Bowler, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

“That is a particular kind of grief—the awareness that we are not drivers of our circumstances, not anymore. We are unwilling passengers.”
― Kate Bowler, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

“What I want more than anything is to bless you and me right now, and feel the truth of our realities without letting reality itself overwhelm us. People often say, “FAITH NOT FEAR,” as if faithful people can’t be afraid. But we are afraid for so many reasons, many of them both reasonable and realistic. So let’s just settle that controversy now: we can be faithful and afraid at the same time.”
― Kate Bowler, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

“Or sometimes the bed is empty, they are gone, gone, missing and missed and there’s no use being grateful, for their silence now takes up all the oxygen anyhow.”
― Kate Bowler, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens