Catastrophes Quote by Parker Palmer

“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about…

— Parker Palmer

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established…

— Parker Palmer

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks.…

— Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways…

— Parker Palmer

“By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something…

— Parker Palmer

“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.”

— Parker Palmer

“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't…

— Parker Palmer

“There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does --…

— Parker Palmer

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

— Parker Palmer

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

— Parker Palmer

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so…

— Parker Palmer

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a…

— Parker Palmer