Andy Mckinney

“I knew that life was pointless, but I couldn't give up on it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“In confession the break-through to community takes place. Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is,
the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It
shuns the light. In the darkness of the unexpressed it poisons the whole being of a person. This can happen even in the midst of a pious community. In confession the light of the Gospel breaks into the darkness and seclusion of the heart. The sin must be brought into the light. The unexpressed
must be openly spoken and acknowledged. All that is secret and hidden is made manifest. It is a hard struggle until the sin is openly admitted. But God breaks gates of brass and bars of iron (Ps. 107: 16).”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father’s heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

“The cracked mind of the schizophrenic may let in light which does not enter intact minds of many sane people whose minds are closed.”
― Ronald David Laing