James Blankenship

“Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis