I’m not afraid of hard work, but I do have an aversion to work that feels like a waste of time.
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“But it’s all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you’re in it, it’s all just day-to-day, right? And isn’t that what you have to make your peace with?”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Christ in us gives us over to death so that he can live within us. Thus our inner dying grows to meet that death from without. Christians receive their own death in this way, and in this way our physical death very truly becomes not the end but rather the fulfillment of our life with Jesus Christ.”
― Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
― Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
“The dignity we feel is real. But death shows it doesn’t belong to us.”
― Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
― Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
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