Michael Brown

“We often want our enemies’ next step to be repentance because we want them to admit what they did to hurt us or how they are wrong. But there may be other steps they need to take first. Jesus accepted the people who were unacceptable and made it clear He wants us to do that too. Not many people ever get condemned into life change. But people get loved into life change all the time. It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance (Rom. 2:4), and He empowers us to extend that same kindness to others.”
― Todd Stevens, How to Pick Up a Stripper and Other Acts of Kindness: Serving People Just as They Are

“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954