Maria Weir

“Christians have been trained at a very deep level of their thinking to believe that the idea of an eternal hell is a clear and unambiguous element of their faith, and that therefore the idea must make perfect moral sense.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“mere three score and ten years to get it right if we are fortunate, and then an eternity of agony in which to rue the consequences if we get it wrong—he would never dare to bring a child into this world, let alone five children; nor would he be able to rest even for a moment, because he would be driven ceaselessly around the world in a desperate frenzy of evangelism, seeking to save as many souls from the eternal fire as possible. I think of”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation