Comments on: Quotation of the Week http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-58/01/ Erika Carney Haub's musings on life and God from South Central, L.A. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:44:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tom http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-58/01/#comment-103990 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:50:56 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-58/01/#comment-103990 Bob's the real deal. I have little respect for the typical conservative call for more personal responsibility among the poor mixed with an almost religious unwillingness to grasp and acknowledge the sheer good luck and sometimes incomprehensible grace bestowed upon the well off. His honest, middle-aged reflections on his own persistent and often losing struggle for faith in his last letter about Mother Theresa's loss of faith in the midst of serving the poor moved me a lot. Not many people can admit to a loss of faith in the face of gross injustice and still call gracefully for more responsibility on the part of those who suffer that injustice. Lots of truth in that tension. Bob’s the real deal.

I have little respect for the typical conservative call for more personal responsibility among the poor mixed with an almost religious unwillingness to grasp and acknowledge the sheer good luck and sometimes incomprehensible grace bestowed upon the well off.

His honest, middle-aged reflections on his own persistent and often losing struggle for faith in his last letter about Mother Theresa’s loss of faith in the midst of serving the poor moved me a lot.

Not many people can admit to a loss of faith in the face of gross injustice and still call gracefully for more responsibility on the part of those who suffer that injustice. Lots of truth in that tension.

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