"Letters are largely written to get things out of your system."

“Quite honestly, there are days when I don't need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.”

Source : Josh Ross (2013). “Scarred Faith: This is a Story about how Honesty, Grief, a Cursing Toddler, Risk-Taking, AIDS, Hope, Brokenness, Doubts, and Memphis Ignited Adventurous Faith”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”

“When you die, Die on "E".... Leave no Dream behind... Leave NO Opportunity behind! Accomplish everything you can.”

“Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.”

“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”

“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”

“Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.”

“The body is the instrument of the soul.”