Erica

“The perfection of his relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defects, all our evils; for our childhood is born of his fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to him, “Thou art my refuge, because thou art my home.”
― George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“There were people in the world who were good and people who were evil, but most of them were some mixture of both and did what they did simply because they were mortal. And her Lord? ... He knew it all and had known it all and always would know it all.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

“How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“I had continuously to learn to accept God’s will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment.”
― Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith