"Lying Awake" Quotes
A nun grapples with the conflict between her spiritual experiences and her deteriorating health.
fiction | 181 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I don't think I'm better than anyone else, but I do think I'm different. Just like everyone else is different.
It's hard to imagine what could have been, but it's easy to see what is.
I don't think that anything pure is simple.
The Lord's ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts.
It's a terrible thing to live with the thought that a single moment of carelessness could ruin everything.
The hardest thing for me to bear is to think that I might have wasted my time here, that I might have missed my chance to do the work I was meant to do.
It's strange to think that the things that we love can be the same things that will destroy us.
What we seek is just beyond our grasp, and what we have is never enough.
The world is full of people who think they have all the answers, but they don't even know the questions.
There's a big difference between what we want and what we need, but sometimes we forget that.
