Jon Snyder

“IF you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

“since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here”
― N.T. Wright, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion

“Love is arguing with all the noise of your own judging of yourself and verifying all your humanity is already under his huge light.”
― Tahni Cullen, Josiah's Fire: Autism Stole His Words, God Gave Him a Voice

“But it does not really matter how you got here or why; and it doesn’t really matter if it was God or the devil or yourself or some ancient chaos that spilled up from the bottom of the sea. What matters now is that you are drowning, and the world you loved before is not your world any longer. The questions of why and how are less pressing than the reality that is your lungs filling with water now. Philosophy and theology won’t help you much here, because what you believe existentially about storms or oceans or drowning won’t make you stop drowning. Religion won’t do you much good down here, because beliefs can’t keep you warm when you’re twenty thousand leagues beneath the sea.”
― Jonathan Martin, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is On the Way and Love Is Already Here