"Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does"

-- Rob Bell

#Reading Quotes #Israel Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I donâ€™t want to be special.Â I donâ€™t want to look special.Â Iâ€™m happy with just â€˜meâ€™”
“If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.”
“I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.”
“It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!”
“My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.”
“Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.”
“... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.”
“Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.”

Source : James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”

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