“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
“And he talks about the 5 percent, which is Special Operations guys, and how, clinically, we’re all borderline sociopaths. But in my mind we’re not the ones that are messed up; it’s the other 95 percent of the population. We run toward the sound of gunfire. Like the fireman who, when everybody else is running this way, is running into the flames. A cop, anyone who does that sort of work, is in that 5 percent, that personality that we need to get that job done. And be able to do that job and rationalize it, religiously or country or however you deal with it, say, ‘Okay, that was my job, that’s why I did that. But now I’m back and I’m fine.’ ”
― Eric Blehm, quote from Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him
“I once watched him remove a living man’s face. He took one tiny patch of flesh at a time until the faceless, blubbering man was staring through lidless eyes at a bloody mosaic of his own skin pasted on a mirror that had been set so he could watch every cut of the operation.”
― Anson Scott, quote from Borderland
“Brie leaned her torso fully against the stool, exposing her defenseless ass to him. A hairbrush sounded more cruel than fun.”
― Red Phoenix, quote from Brie Learns the Art of Submission: Submissive Training Center
“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”
― Cheryl Strayed, quote from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“We must clean this, and then you must leave here. He will find you. He will smell you out as I did. You are full of purity and goodness. It's like candy to my kind.”
― Candace Knoebel, quote from Embracing the Flames
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