“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”
— Therese Doucet“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
— Therese DoucetA Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world—a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith.
— Therese DoucetLeaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.
— Therese DoucetPerhaps the real purpose of life is to discover and embrace our contradictions.
— Therese DoucetThe world is a paradox, and perhaps, so too are we.
— Therese DoucetIn the grand narrative of life, the smallest moments may be the most significant.
— Therese DoucetTo understand the universe, we must first understand ourselves.
— Therese DoucetIn every contradiction, there is a seed of truth waiting to be uncovered.
— Therese DoucetI want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being—not by any approximation in thought, but by being.
— Therese DoucetMaybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.
— Therese DoucetI am at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.
— Therese DoucetWe create our own chains, and we can only break them by looking within.
— Therese DoucetBeing human is about finding peace within the chaos of existence.
— Therese DoucetNothing is simple, and that’s the beauty of existence.
— Therese DoucetTo live fully is to embrace both the light and the darkness within us.
— Therese DoucetI want to be and not be ashamed of being.
— Therese DoucetThe ultimate mystery of being is not in thought, but in experience.
— Therese DoucetTruth is not a single, immutable object. It is something discovered, but always in flux, like the tides of an endless sea.
— Therese DoucetSometimes, the most profound wisdom is not to understand, but to accept what cannot be known.
— Therese DoucetWe are all searching for meaning, but the search itself may be the answer.
— Therese DoucetEmbrace your contradictions, for they are what make you whole.
— Therese DoucetThe most profound understanding often comes from silence, not words.
— Therese Doucet