Joy Wrate

“Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours.
Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known.”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

“Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

“Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom