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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.”
― Sojourner Truth

“You have to understand that when one is just standing there looking, then just for a second one is ready to jump. If one does it, one dares to do it. But if one waits, it’ll never happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Of course the dust is building up unseen, but you learn to repress this for as long as it goes unnoticed by guests. And then one day someone moves a piece of furniture without your say-so, and everything comes into plain view. Dirt and scratch marks. Permanent damage to the parquet floor. By then it’s too late.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
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"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work--harder than one might think.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“By God’s grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.”
― Gloria Furman, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms

“Living "happily ever after" is not the goal. Living well with broken people is.”
― William P. Smith, Loving Well

“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. The”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it—it’s just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Friends are the best helpers. They come prepackaged with compassion and love. All they need is wisdom, and that is available to everyone.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God’s way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Groom imagery in the Bible represents God in relation to his people. Describing reconciliation with God, Ed Welch writes: "The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast and then marrying them rather than crushing them.”
― Justin S. Holcomb

“What is most important to us? What do we love? What is most dear to us?2 We shouldn’t be surprised that these questions get to the core of our being. They also point to where we are headed. All roads eventually lead to our relationship with God. Do we love what he loves? Is he most dear to us?”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“Why would anyone entertain Satan’s questions about God’s goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that’s what Satan is counting on.”
― Ed Welch, Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

“He looked up. His pale hair looked white. He looked fourteen going on some age that never was. He looked as if he’d been sitting there and God had made the trees and rocks around him. He looked like his own reincarnation and then his own again. Above all else he looked to be filled with a terrible sadness. As if he harbored news of some horrendous loss that no one else had heard of yet. Some vast tragedy not of fact or incident or event but of the way the world was.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“When the lord says you must 'become as one of these little ones,' I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead