John M. Hull > Quotes

“Perhaps all severe disabilities lead to a decrease in space and an increase in time.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“He believed that our humanity rests upon our ability to unite across different worlds of experience.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“It is so hard to be a normal person when one is not a normal person.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“The most important thing in life is not happiness but meaning.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“Darkness and light are both alike to thee’.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“Faith is a creative act. It is through faith that we transform the accidental events of our lives into the signs of our destiny. Happiness is fortuitous but meaning is conferred when chance is transfigured through a rebirth of images.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“In seeking understanding, I am seeking for meaning.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark

“Every human being experiences limitation. Everyone’s body is limited: limited within a certain span of years, limited in having to live and work with other people who also have their desires and plans.”
― John M. Hull, Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource

“It would be easy for us to think that Jesus took the distorted, abnormal people and normalised them, making them like everyone else. We should, rather, understand that the welcome Jesus extended to marginalised people, whether because of their occupation, their social status or their impairments, was an experience of healing. He healed people by helping them to escape the ritual taboos which marked them out as impure, by restoring them to the communities from which they had been banished, by eating and drinking with them when no one else would even touch them, and by restoring them to life in all its fullness. In many cases this healing process was accompanied by a cure, but it is the healing that we should emphasise, because it was being healed that saved them.”
― John M. Hull, Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource

“Finally, however, everything will be perfect again. We need to recognise that there are many forms of perfection. Perfection itself may be diverse. So we should not try to divide people into those who are perfect and those who have an impairment, because basically we are all the same.”
― John M. Hull, Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource

“In this way, you force time to your will. Time, for sighted people, is that against which they fight.”
― John M. Hull, Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through The Dark