“But neither the mountains nor the people can rob you of the forgiveness God has given...unless you let them.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“Forgiveness is like an olive tree, mistress. Once it takes root, it will grow, and it’s hard to kill.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“But if rejection was his only stumbling block, then pride was his real problem”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“I think it's easier to know why people do bad things than to understand the true meaning of kind acts.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“El Shaddai, God Almighty; El Elyon, God Most High; El Roi, the God who sees; Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“perhaps forgiveness is more like taking a bath. We must be washed by it over and over.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“I speak to God plainly as I would speak if He stood here before me. Why? Because though He might slay me, He is still my God, my only hope of deliverance.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“When El Shaddai blesses you, no one can steal His blessing—except you.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“THE ACCEPTANCE OF SUFFERING is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun and deludes itself into believing it has to fight for survival and create and cling to an identity other than the sun. Would the death of this delusion not be incredibly liberating? DO YOU WANT AN EASY DEATH? Would you rather die without pain, without agony? Then die to the past every moment, and let the light of your presence shine away the heavy, time-bound self you thought of as “you.”
― Eckhart Tolle, quote from Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.”
― John Eldredge, quote from Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“Olivia: You didn't even know I was there!
Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from What Happens in London
“When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.”
― James Baldwin, quote from The Fire Next Time
“Are you prepared for the first wound?”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Velocity
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