Emma

“The Lord calls us to love all people, including those who are enemies of the gospel and those who blaspheme. This may not be comfortable, and it may not be easy, but this is the gospel of Christ, for He loved His enemies so much that He died to save us.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, True Spirituality

“The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.”
― Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

“When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

“Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O’Connor wrote, “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.”
― Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem