The Sacredness of Questioning Everything Quotes

“Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“Show me a transcript of the words you’ve spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I’ll show you your religion.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“There’s a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“[...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“While pride and self-satisfaction might play well on TV, the Lord detests the proud face.3 It’s the look of impenetrable ignorance. It doesn’t ask questions. It has no reverse gear and won’t admit to ever flip-flopping. When there is no soul-searching, is the soul still there?”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“To make sense of plastic on the mind and to develop a resistance to the perverse patterns that will otherwise run our world for us, I believe an activity of this sort - by way of a blog, an especially redemptive conversation with a coworker, a water coloring or a playlist - is absolutely crucial. It can be done. And when we do it, we begin to see things we didn't know. We have to try to make sense. We have to make time for artful analysis, which is the way we clear a space for the possibility of sanity. It is an outlet for honesty.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“[...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“At their best, all living religious traditions in some fashion offer a challenge to become aware of what’s going on in our minds. They invite us to refuse to settle and to resist the reality-distorting media that perpetuate debilitating forms of self-satisfaction. In this sense, living religious traditions are like arsenals, renewable resources for rethinking our lives in light of the ethical demands of more sacredly conducted living—a way of living that confronts the disfiguring generalities of mere business, religion, politics, economics, and other deluding categories. But as we understand only too well, it is often the case that the redeeming power of religious witness is sabotaged, squandered, or ignored altogether by those who claim to speak for their religious tradition. For some, their religion is nothing more than a special interest group, a bastion of offendedness and anger, the powerhouse of the saved rather than a place from which life can be viewed and lived more redemptively.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“[...] Like calling someone a fool or an idiot. It's one of those things Jesus tells us never to do. Calling someone a pervert without acknowledging our own inner pervert might lead to the destruction - or at least the perversion - of our own soul. We become perverts in our determination to catch a pervert.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“Pervert is a verb, and we do it all the time. To pervert is to degrade, to cut down to size - and we do it to people in our minds. We devalue them. We reduce them to the limit of our appetites, of our sense of what might prove useful to us, of our sense of what strikes us as appropriate. ...we often only file them away - these living and breathing human beings - into separate files of crazy-making issues - talk. When we think of a person primarily as a problem ... we're reducing them to the tiny sphere of our stunted attention span. This is how perversion works. Perversion is a failure of the imagination, a failure to pay adequate attention.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?