My father still believes that God is a white-haired fellow with blue eyes, almost exactly like himself. My God is more amorphous, more of a universal constant, like gravity or magnetism. This constant doesn't pick favorites; it simply flows into any opening we make for it. If Hitler had a kindly moment, a moment when, say, he felt like saving a kitten from a flood, I believe that God--barred from Adolf's mind in so many other moments--would have poured into the kindness of that moment and helped the mass murderer reach the kitty. I believe that the line between good and evil doesn't separate human beings into different categories; it runs through every one of us, and every moment is a choice: heal or destroy.
~Martha Beck
from her memoir
Leaving the Saints:
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
~Martha Beck
from her memoir
Leaving the Saints:
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
Hmmm, Hitler and kittens. Not two things you usually find in the same sentence, are they?
Posted by: Debra She Who Seeks | July 02, 2009 at 06:24 AM
"I believe that the line between good and evil doesn't separate human beings into different categories; it runs through every one of us, and every moment is a choice: heal or destroy."
Amen to that!
Posted by: Zion Mystic | July 02, 2009 at 01:23 PM
"I believe that the line between good and evil doesn't separate human beings into different categories; it runs through every one of us, and every moment is a choice: heal or destroy."
Quoted for Truth!
That's a beautiful quote. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: Danmara | July 05, 2009 at 04:09 PM