The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

- Keith Ablow

If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life…

- Keith Ablow

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human…

- Keith Ablow

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

- Keith Ablow

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed …

- Keith Ablow

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

- Keith Ablow

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

- Keith Ablow

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

- Keith Ablow

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely…

- Keith Ablow