#image

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth. ↗

— Douglas John Hall

#image-of-god #sin #truth #courage

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#death #image #death

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it? ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#endurance #image #quotes #substabce #death

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#paul-elie #faith

I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut. ↗

— Jeanne Ray

#family

...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#catholic #christian #divine-hunger #eating-disoders #food

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#freedom #image #impressions #peace #war

Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#image-of-god #freedom