If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
Krista TippettRead
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights the contrast between loud, aggressive expressions of faith and the quieter, more benevolent acts of kindness that often go unnoticed.
In this quote, Krista Tippett emphasizes the importance of recognizing the quieter, compassionate aspects of religion that often overshadowed by more aggressive and sensational voices. She suggests that while some may dominate public discourse about religion, there exists a vast, unseen community engaged in acts of gentleness and service that truly reflect the essence of faith. By acknowledging both sides, we can gain a more complete understanding of the role of religion in society.
Themes
ReligionGentlenessKindnessUnderstandingVoicesFaith
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, one might reference Tippett's quote to highlight the importance of recognizing unsung heroes.
More from Krista Tippett
All quotes →Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
Krista TippettRead
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
Krista TippettRead
Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.
Krista TippettRead
Similar quotes
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
Frank HerbertRead
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.
Michael MooreRead
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
Jodi PicoultRead
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
Saul AlinskyRead
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.
CyprianRead
All things are in a state of flux.
HeraclitusRead