Joline Atkins

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of our past history. All the wrong turns in the past, the detours, mistakes, moral lapses, everything that is irrevocably ugly or painful, melts and dissolves in the warm glow of accepted tenderness. As theologian Kevin O’Shea writes, “One rejoices in being unfrightened to be open to the healing presence, no matter what one might be or what one might have done.” —A Glimpse of Jesus”
― Brennan Manning, Dear Abba: Morning and Evening Prayer

“Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.”
― Brennan Manning, Dear Abba: Morning and Evening Prayer

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard