Maria Weir

“Surely this is the profoundest truth in the doctrine of resurrection. That we must rise from the dead to be saved is a claim not simply about resumed corporeality, whatever that might turn out to be, but more crucially about the fully restored existence of the person as socially, communally, corporately constituted.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“A belief does not merit unconditional reverence just because it is old or because its proponents claim a divine authority for it that they cannot prove; neither should it be immune to being challenged in terms commensurate to the scandal it poses.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“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

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