Shadonna Watts Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again. — Rachel Held Evans

Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something. — Gary Snyder

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game. — Tim Finchem

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. — Tillie Olsen

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Some people may find material chores irksome; they would prefer to use their time to talk and be with others. They haven't yet realized that the thousand and one small things that have to be done each day, the cycle of dirtying and cleaning, were given by God to enable us to communicate through matter. . . . We are all called to do, not extraordinary things, but very ordinary things, with an extraordinary love that flows from the heart of God.

. . . A community which has a sense of work done well, quietly and lovingly, humbly and without fuss, can become a community where the presence of God is profoundly lived. . . . So the community will take on a whole contemplative dimension. — Jean Vanier

Sarratore's son is really unbearable. — Elena Ferrante

Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater. — Susan Ford

[ ... ] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy. — Jonathan Safran Foer

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. — W. H. Auden

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. — Nolan Bushnell

My pleasure
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms. — Denise Levertov

Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me. — John S. Hall

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control. — Pete Wentz

Love is the beauty of the being. — Lailah Gifty Akita