Jediah Giller

“When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, ‘Why did God take them?’ A better question would be ‘Why did God give them to us?’ What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared? Didn’t you have such moments with Annabelle?”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“And this god—all-powerful, all-good, who ruled the entire world, and upheld the harmony of the cosmos—was the god who had chosen for his especial favour the Jews. Helpless before the might of Rome’s legions though they might be, unable to prevent a conqueror from intruding upon even their holiest shrine, a people with no prospect of ever winning global rule, they had this consolation: the certitude that their God was indeed the one, the only Lord.”
― Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

“People are slowly dying everywhere,” he said. “They are also continuously living. Every moment they draw breath, they can find the glory I put here on Earth, if they look for it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“Scripture was like a mansion with an immense number of locked rooms, and an equal number of keys, all of which lay scattered about the house.”
― Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World