Lemansky The Shield Quotes & Sayings

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others. There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens, but the cost of such seeing - I am just beginning to realize - may very well be any final clarity or perspective on my own life, my own faith. That would not be a bad fate, to burn up like the booster engine that falls away from the throttling rocket, lighting a little dark as I go. — Christian Wiman

Even if this world is nothing but a story, even if we exist only to entertain someone far beyond our reach, I don't think this world is ridiculous! — Jun Mochizuki

When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection. — Lysa TerKeurst

The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh. — Elif Shafak

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like ... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading. — Rick Riordan

My heart is asleep. We — Tarryn Fisher

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

To believe is human to doubt is divine. — Peter Rollins

The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16 and in that moment I realized, "Wow, there's a love greater than what I know of in this world." — Christian Hosoi

I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. — Alexandra Bracken

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another. — Richard Paul Evans