"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Inspirational Quotes #God Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
“We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jerry Lee Lewis". "Walk The Line", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”
“Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.”
“We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott (2005). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press, USA
“As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.”
“We must distinguish judging from guessing.”

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