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“We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.”
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“Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.”
Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.80, Moody Publishers
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“We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.”
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“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”
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“If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.”
Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394
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“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
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“Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?”
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“Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.”
Source : Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.8, Harper Collins
