Claire Pearson

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close