Valerie

“We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments’ (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“The right book, like the right song or the right love, can change the entire cosmos, for the right person, of course. And then it spills out from there.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces