"When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity."

-- David Emerald Womeldorff

#Loss Quotes #People Quotes #Safety Quotes

“Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'”
“If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.”
“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
“On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.”
“PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.”
“Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.”
“Remember...that you are redeemed of the Lord [Ephesians 1:7]-that you are bought with a price [1 Corinthians 6:20], even the inestimable price of the precious blood of the Son of God...Acquaint yourselves with Him in His word and holy ordinances.”
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

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