It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
Hope is holding a creative tension between what is, and what could and should be, and each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two.
~ Parker Palmer, from a podcast with Carrie Newcomer, Episode 29, December 31, 2020