“Where there is great love there are always miracles,” he said at length. “One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you.
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“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“What impact would repentance have had on the role of women in the culture? If, in her misery and unhappiness, America had fallen to her knees instead of throwing herself into the pursuit of licentiousness, would there have been any resultant change in the way women were viewed? Absolutely there would have been. I would argue that one of the first things that we would have needed to chuck out the window would have been the idealistic, superficial, and incredibly shallow view of homemaking that was flourishing in the '50s.”
― Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
― Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
“...live hard and die grateful.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Almost.
It is death by living.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“The God who looked on you with joy when you were small and racing across His gift of green grass on His gift of feet beneath His gift of sky watched by His gift of a mother with His gift of love in His gift of her eyes, is the same God who will look on you as that race finally ends. He is the same, but we have changed, between our opening lines and our final page.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
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