Aaron White

“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”
― Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley

“I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths," she said, realising something for the first time. "But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching glaciers in the Arctic Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“can’t compare God to anything, because to do so assumes that there can be anything in creation that can be likened to God. “To whom will you compare me?” God asks. No answer is given, for there simply is no answer. God cannot be compared to anyone or anything, for He is unique, alone as the Creator of all things.”
― James R. White, The Sovereign Grace of God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrines of Calvinism

“Do we really believe that God is our Creator? Every time we sin, we betray the fact that we wish it were not so. Sin is a denial of God as Creator. If we really felt, in our innermost being, that we owe all that we are, every second of the day, to our God, how could we even consider rebellion against the one who so mercifully grants to us breath and life? Sin is, truly, utter folly when we realize that God made us for His own purposes, and we are dependent upon Him every moment.”
― James R. White, The Sovereign Grace of God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrines of Calvinism