Mary Cummings

“If comfort is a good feeling, then God failed. But if comfort is fortification, then God has more than made good on His promise.”
― Amanda Held Opelt, A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

“In the old testament the rituals of grief mirror the rituals of repentance [....] In light of this, I've asked myself what repentance and grief have in common. If nothing else, both bereavement and contrition bring you to the end of yourself. Sin and sorrow are humiliating. They reveal how weak you are in your own flesh. Both require us to turn in a different direction, to abandon our own plans and move toward God.”
― Amanda Held Opelt, A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

“When your love for a person is so profound that it’s part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Far from condoning sin, his love has found a way to expose it (because he is light) and to consume it (because he is fire) without destroying the sinner, but rather saving him.”
― John R. W. Scott