I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I …

- Susan Meissner

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

- Susan Meissner

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

- Susan Meissner

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but mos…

- Susan Meissner

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing so…

- Susan Meissner

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

- Susan Meissner

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to belie…

- Susan Meissner

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

- Susan Meissner

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

- Susan Meissner