47 Quotes by Lesley Hazleton

She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.

As is the way in political matters, all were convinced that the interests of the community and their own personal interests were one and the same

Where belief tries to expel doubt, faith walks with it, offering no easy answers. Belief insists, while faith hopes and trusts. The one is demanded, the other freely given, and this freedom means that real faith is both difficult and stubborn. It involves an ongoing struggle, a continual questioning of what we think we know, a wrestling with issues and ideas. It goes hand-in-hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it. And sometimes even in conscious defiance of it.

In a sense Muhammad was less the messenger than the translator, struggling to give human form -- words -- to the ineffable.

Yet everywhere he looked, what should surely bring people together only seemed to drive them apart. The more they preached what the prophets had said from Moses down through Jesus, the less they seemed to hear those same prophets' words. How could the idea of divine unity result in such human disunity?

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

I’m always asking questions – not to find ‘answers,’ but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That’s fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

Man journeys in darkness, and his destiny journeys toward him,” he said, and traveled on.