“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”
“I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.”
“Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.”
“Unbelief, which causes fear, always limits God's use of a life.”
“But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.”
“I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.”