"Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God."

“The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.”

“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”

“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”

“I need to remember to overcome.”

“There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.”

“Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.150, Destiny Image Publishers

“No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini, Ella Noyes (1912). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”

“Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.”