1 year ago
The world breaks everyone, then some become strong at the broken places.
»Love this truth from Ernest Hemingway
1 year ago
Death isn’t the extinguishing of a light; rather, it is the turning off of a lamp because the dawn has come.
»Jerry Jones, Beyond the Storm
1 year ago
No Possible Term of Comparison
Love this statement by Napoleon. An empire founded upon love. Revolutionary.
2 years ago
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
»G.K. Chesterton
2 years ago
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
»Frederick Buechner // Preaching on compassion today. Love these thoughts from Buechner.
2 years ago
2 years ago
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
»Albert Einstein
2 years ago
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
»Gorgeous sentiment from Søren Kierkegaard—reminds me of the Psalms.
2 years ago
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
»Garrison Keillor // Not my favorite thing about Christmas, but a thing I like. Shared experience is always a bonding agent. And when you share an experience with the world, well, that’s pretty cool.
2 years ago
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
»Flaubert // (Here’s to the impossibility of worship…)
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