“All pain’s a prelude: to symphony, to sweetness. The pearl began as a pain in the oyster’s stomach.” ~ Eugene H. Peterson ...
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Quotable || A Living Mystery
“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that ...
Quotable || That Utterly Gratuitous Gift
“Easter, that utterly gratuitous gift, is ours. It is with us in the ordinary fabric of our lives. Like a fog-shrouded morning where death and sorrow reign until the fullness of life ...
Quotable || Love
“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment ...
Quotable || Joy
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ~ William Butler Yeats ...
Quotable || Peace
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” ~ C. S. Lewis ...
Quotable || Patience
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
Quotable || Kindness
“Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.” ~ Alexander the Great ...
Quotable || Goodness
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” ~ Billy Graham ...
Quotable || Faithfulness
“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton May Sarton ...