The Emotional Struggle

Quotes


I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach perfection is god's business.
- M.J. Fox

...As if something were broken in the world and we were supposed to hold our palms against the wound.
- Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
C. S. Lewis

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
Mother Teresa

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott

those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
-golda mei"

the lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to god, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who god really is."
-quoted by sarah arthur, author of the one year daily grind.