Lynn Derks

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The creation of man whom God in his foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God's omnipotence. For it would have been a thing of trifling and contemptible ease for Perfection to create mere perfection. To do so would, to speak truth, be not creation but extension. Separateness is identity and the only way for God to create, truly create, man was to make him separate from God Himself, and to be separate from God is to be sinful. The creation of evil is therefore the index of God's glory and His power. That had to be so that the creation of good might be the index of man's glory and power. But by God's help. By His help and in His wisdom.”
― Robert Penn Warren