Renee

“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things

“We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things

“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed