"Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness;……" — John O'Donohue

"Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness."

— John O'Donohue

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179 Quotes by John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your…
The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only…
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in…
To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected…
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret…
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we…
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown,…

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More Bleakness Quotes

This quote is filed under Bleakness Quotes, one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave… — George Saunders
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and… — Karel Capek
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness.… — John O'Donohue
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. — Nick Hornby
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or… — Anne Lamott
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was… — Jack Kerouac
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it… — John Steinbeck
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and… — Siri Hustvedt

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