Blake Shirk

“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte

“Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God’s assignment to serve others.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask