Elca Grobler

“This teaching has reached almost all civilized countries, to their disaster, for law and justice and mercy and kindness are not rooted in men, but in God, and without Him they cannot truly exist, Him who made them. Man is only the receptacle of grace; he is not grace itself.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“On the mountain tonight the full moon faces the full sun. Now could be the moment when we fall apart or we become whole. Our time seems to be up—I think I even hear it stopping. Then why have we kept up the singing for so long? Because that’s the sort of determined creature we are. Before us, our first task is to astonish, And then, harder by far, to be astonished. —Galway Kinnell”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“dustiness, yet in that dustiness I always feel the movement of pain. I am afraid to penetrate deeper.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“blessings, but curses. And this afflicted me. When I was drained of tears, but not of sorrow, I discovered I could speak no more. But when I find him whom I seek, not only will the curse against my people be lifted, I shall speak once more in rejoicing.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician