"We are closest to Christ when sharing the worldâ€™s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross."

-- Stephen R. Lawhead

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“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

Source : "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.
“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"”
“I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.”
“The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.”
“I rather like getting away from fiction.”
“I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'”
“Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.”
“I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.”

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