Missy Flinn > Missy's Quotes

“What I was learning in the church was in sharp contrast to the theology of self-sacrificing love I wrestled with. It wasn’t the willingness to bear pain, or carry the burdens of others that transformed life in the places where life had been harmed by violence. It was strong relationships among human beings who offered their presence to one another.”
― Rebecca Ann Parker, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us

“The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
― Matthew Arnold

“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
― Matthew Arnold

“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Choose equality.”
― Matthew Arnold

“And each day brings it's pretty dust,
Our soon-choked souls to fll
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.”
― Matthew Arnold

“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation