Grace

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Our uprising is against a cultural mind-set that twists the purpose and potential of the teen years and threatens to cripple our generation. Our uprising won’t be marked by mass riots and violence, but by millions of individual teens quietly choosing to turn the low expectations of our culture upside down.”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“the modern concept of adolescence is not a biological stage, but a cultural mind-set. It doesn’t stop when you graduate from high school, or when you turn twenty-one.”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“You are a man of many talents, King Jaxon.”
Creases deepened around his eyes. “And you, Queen Jezelia, are a woman of surprising strengths.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness