I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.
taken from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
What an accurate depiction of humanity and what a biblical one. People - created in God's image with all that divine potential, and yet fatally flawed by sin. So ugly and so glorious. That is humanity. That is the gospel.
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