Jim Morris

“The most forceful step to stop slavery in Texas came from President Vicente Ramón Guerrero, who declared emancipation in September 1829.”
― Captivating History, History of Texas: A Captivating Guide to Texas History, Starting from the Arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in North America through the Texas Revolution to the Present

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”
― Mark Twain

“Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough; but peace, love, joy are only from God. And God is the enemy whom Jacob fought there by the river, of course, and whom in one way or another we all of us fight—God, the beloved enemy. Our enemy because, before giving us everything, he demands of us everything; before giving us life, he demands our lives—our selves, our wills, our treasure.”
― Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

“he had a reader’s soul, one that was able to look beyond what was presented to see what lay below the surface.”
― Madeline Martin, The Booklover's Library