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“What comes out of this life is his business, but what I do will never be what makes me who I am. Because this is so, when suffering comes, it doesn’t have the power to unravel God’s design. Instead, the suffering becomes part of the fabric (p. 155).”
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
“With war raging around the world and suffering everywhere, how extraordinary, how beautiful this life could be. There were no words, really. No words.”
― My Beloved: A Mitford Novel
― My Beloved: A Mitford Novel
“They remind us not just that this world can wound us, but that wounds can heal. They remind us to hope (p. 10)”
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
“I realize how sweet solitude is when it is not enforced, how contented it is possible to be in one’s own company when it is not the only possibility one has.”
― Amy Snow
― Amy Snow
“The goal of suffering well is to move us not only beyond the stick figures, but also from a place of pride to one of intimacy and familiarity with our Lord. It is to move us not from crude to eloquent, but from unfamiliar to intimate. This is why we practice spiritual disciplines (p. 50).”
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
― Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
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