"We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can."

-- Jill Briscoe

#Pain Quotes #Real Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.”

Source : Horace McCoy (2011). “They Shoot Horses, Don't They?”, p.13, Profile Books
“I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.”
“Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.”

Source : David Suzuki (2007). “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded”, p.63, Greystone Books Ltd
“Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.”

Source : "Fenn & Now" by Dennis Hensley. Movieline (USA), p. 54-59, June 1999.
“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.9, A&C Black
“The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.”
“Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.”

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