“The more I talked to sick people. the more I found that what is most disturbing for many of is is that grace has become a kind of moral requirement in sickness: If you must be ill, at least be improved by your illness. And yet conditions under which grace can emerge may not be present.”

“The more I talked to sick people. the more I found that what is most disturbing for many of is is that grace has become a kind of moral requirement in sickness: If you must be ill, at least be improved by your illness. And yet conditions under which grace can emerge may not be present.”

— Meghan O'Rourke