Melissa

“When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.”
― Christie Purifoy, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

“a surprise or two hiding in everyone, and if you put them in a box, you’ll never get to see it.”
― Philip Ulrich, Begin

“To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.”
― Edith Stein, The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Text

“I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ