"The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced."

-- Dan B. Allender

#Restoration Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”
“Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.”
“We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.”
“Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.”
“Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.”
“Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.”
“Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.”

Source : Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love Deluxe”, p.247, Penguin

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