Tina Williams

“He does not deal with us  maccording to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For  nas high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his  osteadfast love toward  pthose who fear him;”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“Notice that, in summarizing the Greatest Commandments, Jesus didn’t say, “Love your neighbor as yourself…so that you can share the gospel,” or “Love your neighbor as yourself…in order to obtain cultural influence.” “Love your neighbor as yourself” was a complete sentence. Simply loving our neighbor is good and God-honoring in and of itself and is the foundational purpose for focused, masterful work, as well as the most fundamental way we make ourselves useful to the world.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“To know what thinking men and women have felt and seen and imagined through all the ages of the world. To meet my natural companions among the mighty dead. To walk with them in conversation. To know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we’ve become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us. Individuals just as real as you and me, they fought over each new idea and died to give life to the dreams we live in. Some of them—a lot of them—wasted their days following error down nowhere roads. Some hacked their way through jungles of suffering to collapse in view of some far-off golden city of the imagination. But all the thoughts we think—all the high towers of the mind’s citadel—were sculpted out of shapeless nothing through the watches of their uncertain nights. Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single great injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life—to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son—how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory