Laura

“We comfort ourselves by insisting that, while our lives might not be very fruitful, at least we’re being faithful. The fact is, we’ve become more fearful than we realize, and it’s costing us more than we may ever understand. This is not God’s idea of faithfulness. Now,”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Don’t apologize for your tears or qualify how you feel. God isn’t freaked out by our pain or what we’re really feeling; He just wants us to share it with Him rather than bury it and pretend like it’s not there. He is here to listen and here to love.”
― Jess Connolly, Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough