2 Quotes by Ben Palpant

Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from which resurrection springs.

I am part of his story. I am the epiphany of God. I am a character whose life events have a purpose for me and for the story. Every even has a purpose in the author's larger design, even the bark of a dog, the death of a baby bird, or a small black coffin for a stillborn child. He knows the falling of a sparrow and he knew the collapse of a mind. God does not look at our suffering from afar. It is an intimate event to him. He is the author of every detail, speaking the suffering as it occurs.