Scott Schopper

“schadenfreude,”
― Douglas Preston, The Obsidian Chamber

“WHENEVER SOMEBODY STARTS KEEPING SCORE IN a relationship the relationship begins to die.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love . . . In a concentration camp, the guards possess almost unlimited power. By applying force, they can make you renounce your God, curse your family, work without pay, eat human excrement, kill and then bury your closest friend or even your own mother. All this is within their power. Only one thing is not: they cannot force you to love them. This fact may help explain why God sometimes seems shy to use his power. He created us to love him, but his most impressive displays of miracle—the kind we may secretly long for—do nothing to foster that love. As Douglas John Hall has put it, “God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.” (Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God)”
― John Eldredge, Epic

“Keep practicing until it lives inside you; then it will seem foolishly easy to the unpracticed. — BILL HOLM, “FRIED CHICKEN IN ICELAND”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging