“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”
Loung Ung (1970) American academic
Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 24
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