Karis Davis

“The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people. As I grow older, I admire kind people.”
― Abraham Herschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I could weep over the death Dido brought upon herself out of love for Aeneas, yet I shed no tears over the death I brought upon myself by not loving you. O God, you are the light of my heart, bread for the inward mouth of my soul, the virtue wedded to my mind and the innermost recesses of my thought; yet I did not love you, and breaking my troth I strayed away from you.”
― St Augustine , Confessions