An Incremental Life Quotes

“Look at a garden, almost any garden, and it will look back at you, breathing an essential loveliness in your direction.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“You choose words like matches, striking them to see what happens next.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“We cannot truly welcome light until we've lived a darkness deeper than what nightly covers the land with its dusky blanket.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“How to justify our existence? Fragments, we hurtle, alone in the expanding, out-rushing universe of cold stars, wayward comets.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“In the mouth of a truth-teller, speaking with the integrity of love, every word, painful or profound, turns hallowed.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“How, then, to find the courage to speak with such authenticity, with words muscular enough to ring the doorbell of the listener's mind, admitting the rigor and the glory of the holy through the open door of the down-to-earth, the commonplace, the very ordinary.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems

“As we meet and enter the dining room of truth and grace, let us join and feed together on holy food, prepared and provided by our welcoming Host.”
― Luci Shaw, An Incremental Life: Poems