Eugene Kennedy

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”

“Real religion is not about clear-cut answers, it's about living with the questions.”

“To be a friend is to be a host of the feelings of another.”

“Loneliness is the pain of being human. All human beings are lonely.”

“Hope is not a feeling. It is a decision we make because we believe that the future will be better than the past.”

“Friendship is the experience of being seen and heard and understood.”

“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”

“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.”

“Authority is not a power to be possessed but a trust to be constantly earned.”

“Sexuality is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.”

“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”

“The great sin of the church is that it has taken the mystery out of faith.”