Hannah Coulter - Quotes

"Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place."

-- voice of Hannah Coulter (from Wendell Berry's book Hannah Coulter)

"Oh, yes, brothers and sisters, we are members one of another. The difference, beloved, ain't in who is and who's not, but in who knows it and who don't. Oh, my friends, there ain't no nonmembers, living nor dead nor yet to come. Do you know it? Or do you don't? A man is a member of a woman and a worm. A woman is a member of a man and a mole. Oh, beloved, it's all one piece of work."

-- voice of Burley Coulter (from Wendell Berry's book Hannah Coulter)

Proceed and Be Bold - Quote

"[G]oodness is more important than greatness, compassion more essential than passion."

-- attributed to SAMUEL MOCKBEE (taken from Andrea Oppenheimer Dean & Timothy Hursley's Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee)