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

“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

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before the law has broken down. Without this legal equality, which originally was destined to replace the older laws and orders of the feudal society, the nation dissolves into an anarchic mass of over- and underprivileged individuals. Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days of July and August 1940—for why should it not enclose my own experiences as well as the past and future history of the Universe? The egg is the macrocosm and the microcosm, the dividing line between the Big and the Small which makes it impossible to see the whole. To possess a telescope without its other essential half—the microscope—seems to me a symbol of the darkest incomprehension. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
― Leonora Carrington, Down Below