"I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness."

-- Amy Bloom

#Kindness Quotes #People Quotes #Shyness Quotes

“I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.”
“If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.”
“Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.”

Source : "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.
“We all scribble poetry.”
“When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!”
“The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.”
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.”

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