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“In the beautiful words of Lore Wilbert Ferguson: Tell me, I want to say to my fellow writers, tell me of your inner demons, tell me of your flesh. I want to hear the war that waged within you as you navigated complex stories and spaces. I want to know how hard you fought and how much you wept and how little you prayed. Tell it honest, tell it slant, tell it however you want to, but tell the truth because the truth is ten thousand little protests that got you where you are and every one of them matters to God and to me and even to you because there you are and there you were all along.5”
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
“I finally realized that embracing God’s hard will with a grateful spirit is the highest expression of faith in him and the most glorious experience a Christian can have.”
― The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior
― The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior
“I used to think of the Christian life as a sort of achievement test in which we were supposed to hurry to figure out all the right answers, but I'm starting to wonder if these slow, hard days of growth help transform us into our eternal form, and therefore are crucial. God lets us live out our belief (and our unbelief) in such a way that the truth of ourselves rises to the surface. Sincere doubt and deflective doubt are divided. What we love most is exposed by our long days of chasing. We are shown ourselves so that we can resign more and more to the indwelling God. Those who love the light pursue the light, and those who love the darkness of self-deification are allowed to feel the gravity of this choice while time remains to make new choices.”
― Courage, Dear Heart: Letters to a Weary World
― Courage, Dear Heart: Letters to a Weary World
“Years of pain have taught me that if you want to know Christ deeply—not skating the surface but intimately—it will mean journeying through deep suffering. Think of it: When Jesus gave you his most amazing, life-transforming display of love; when he showed you the height, depth, and breadth of that love; when he withheld nothing but wrung himself inside out to death, pouring out all of his love to the last drop…it happened on a torturous cross, his greatest point of horror and anguish. It seems then that if we are to know Jesus in an intimate way, it will take place in our own points of horror and anguish.”
― The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior
― The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior
“It has always been difficult for me to face the truth about my childhood because it requires a commitment to explore the lineaments and features of a history I would prefer to forget. For years I did not have to face the demonology of my youth;
I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious.
But I was drawn back to the history of my family and the failures of my own adult life by a single telephone call.
I wish I had no history to report. I've pretended for so long that my childhood did not happen. I had to keep it tight, up near the chest. I could not let it out. I followed the redoubtable example of my mother.
It's an act of will to have a memory or not, and I chose not to have one.”
― The Prince of Tides
I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious.
But I was drawn back to the history of my family and the failures of my own adult life by a single telephone call.
I wish I had no history to report. I've pretended for so long that my childhood did not happen. I had to keep it tight, up near the chest. I could not let it out. I followed the redoubtable example of my mother.
It's an act of will to have a memory or not, and I chose not to have one.”
― The Prince of Tides
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Art, Biography, Christian, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Travel, and Nonfiction
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