Beritt Swartley Quotes & Sayings

Suffering is one of life's great teachers. — Bryant McGill

Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and when we stared at the stars, we were really beholding a million lives twinkling back at us, asking us not to forget. — Tiffany Baker

So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested. — Alan De Jager

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.
Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.
We lived and died together.
All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.
And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.
And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses. — Sherman Alexie

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. — Eddie Slovik

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry. — J.D. Robb