Abey (ዐቢይ)

“You never know how much you really believe in anything until it's truth or falsehood become a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you than first discover how much you really trust it?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Brothers, have no fear of men's sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all of God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I wouldn’t want to be in a world without any suffering, because then there would be no compassion and understanding either. If you haven’t suffered hunger, you can’t appreciate having something to eat. If you haven’t gone through a war, you don’t know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one unpleasant thing after another. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, and transforming it into compassion, we find a way to happiness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering