23 Quotes by David Dark

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It’s easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

I eventually came to suspect that any God who is nervous, defensive, or angry in the face of questions is a false god. I began to realize that I often ascribed to God the traits of people who are ill at ease, anxious, and occasionally hateful and who even presume from time to time to speak on God’s behalf.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Because it’s in the nature of a gift, the offering and the reception, to create relationship and to overcome that which divides, one can’t remain in the way of the gift and also definitively disassociate. When a gift occurs, we see ourselves in others, our very lives sustained by the grace of others, and we find we can hardly hold ourselves apart. The gift occasions communion, that wholeness for which we’re all longing in one way or another most of the time.

Religion is perhaps most helpfully conceived of as the question of what tales and traditions our lives embody.