This Sunday’s readings: Luke 13:1-9

Reflections

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri, author, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.
~ Peter Singer, 1946- , Australian philosopher, Practical Ethics

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A lot of you cared, just not enough.
~ Jay Asher, 1975- , writer/novelist

I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
~ Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, novelist/dramatist

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it’s a decent girl?”

“Wouldn’t I know which one I was?” “Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
~ Derek Landy, 1974- , author/screenwriter

There’s nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck, 1917-2011, teacher/author

A God who could pardon without justice might one of these days condemn without reason.
~ C.H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892, famed London preacher