Same Kind of Different as Me

I was recently loaned a copy of a wonderful book titled Same Kind of Different as Me, by Ronald Hall and Denver Moore.



Seeing as it's a novel on loan, I've remembered to jot down a few of my favourite quotes:

"The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions, and that's the kind of love Miss Debbie showed the folks at the mission."

"Good medicine always tastes bad."

"The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' fall out the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can't see where it's gon' wind up, but He can."

"Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. ... People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must past thee by."

"That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think."

"I had learned by then that rich white folks got a lotta rules 'bout forks. I still ain't figured out why they got to use three or four different ones and make a lotta extra work for the folks in the kitchen."

"Nothing keeps you honest like a witness."


"But I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The trust about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless --just workin our way toward home."

- Denver Moore

"I remembered what C. S. Lewis said of the clash between grief and faith: 'The tortures occur,' he wrote. 'If they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflect or permit them if they weren't."

"One of the phrases we evangelicals like to throw around is that Christianity is 'not a religion; it's a relationship.' I believe that, which is why I know that when my faith was shattered and I raged against Him, He still accepted me. And even though I have penciled a black mark in His column, I can be honest about it. That's what a relationship is all about."

- Ron Hall