Kalmar Shuffler

“As I smelled, shifted, and stepped over the rotting dead, I came to understand something fundamental: I was alive, and I wanted to go on living. I did not want to be killed by Lord Nudd. I did not want to become yet another hideous, grinning, bloated lump of putrid flesh. I was not ready to die; I wanted to live.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Paradise War

“Sometimes we don’t know where God is going to lead us; but God already knows.
It’s not our job to worry about that. It’s just our job to follow.”
― Rich Mullins, Rich Mullins - Songs

“He was waiting to see what she would make of him, as they say. And then he would be what she made of him.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Jack

“We do. We know this, but just because it’s a habit to believe it, not because it is really visible to us most of the time. But once in a lifetime, maybe, you look at a stranger and you see a soul, a glorious presence out of place in the world. And if you love God, every choice is made for you. There is no turning away. You’ve seen the mystery—you’ve seen what life is about. What it’s for. And a soul has no earthly qualities, no history among the things of this world, no guilt or injury or failure. No more than a flame would have. There is nothing to be said about it except that it is a holy human soul. And it is a miracle when you recognize it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Jack