Barb Terpstra

“Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.”
― Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

“So you see, Jesus is on both sides. He is on the side of the victims, and he is also on the side of the perpetrators. That is why the Christian gospel is so radical. It is radically inclusive in ways that the politically correct crowd doesn't dream of. The gospel refuses to divide the world up into the correct and the incorrect, the righteous and the unrighteous, the innocent and the guilty. Jesus takes all that into himself.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost