Derousse Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

You are amazing! You are wonderful! You are a miracle! — Debasish Mridha

Somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit
much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief.
Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this. — John Eldredge

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I realized with a growing and startling sense of clarity that the seminary was educating and training me for a world that no longer existed. Moreover, the posture of this particular brand of Christianity toward the surrounding culture was one of enormous suspicion and at times hostility. It seemed that part of this evolving designation involved a posture of entrenchment and argument toward culture. But I loved culture. I loved the freedom to engage with people for the purpose of friendship and dialogue, not simply evangelism. — Tim Keel

I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life. — Ishmael Beah

Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think. — Thucydides