Elca Grobler

“This teaching has reached almost all civilized countries, to their disaster, for law and justice and mercy and kindness are not rooted in men, but in God, and without Him they cannot truly exist, Him who made them. Man is only the receptacle of grace; he is not grace itself.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“He says you end up marrying the one you don’t understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Estelle grinned knowingly. “You have to listen to each other all the time. But not all the time. If you listen to each other all the time, there’s a risk that you can’t forgive each other afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“On the mountain tonight the full moon faces the full sun. Now could be the moment when we fall apart or we become whole. Our time seems to be up—I think I even hear it stopping. Then why have we kept up the singing for so long? Because that’s the sort of determined creature we are. Before us, our first task is to astonish, And then, harder by far, to be astonished. —Galway Kinnell”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship