Melissa

“Hope is the cheering in triumph for what others deem a lost cause. Hope denies that our lives don’t matter. Hope is currency in the land of melancholy. Hope is the dancing when the music has long ceased. Hope is bread for the starved soul. Hope is the voice that whispers to us that “all things are possible.” Hope is the grace to face our fears knowing that there is someone greater than the sum of all fears. Hope holds out a light rather than curses the dark. Hope is the physician of a terrified soul. Hope is the hero of the weak. Hope is defiance in the face of the tyrant.”
― Michael F. Bird, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible

“The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“In the beginning of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured him up and gave him some high post in the State.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill