Emma-Leigh

“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“I know our world isn’t perfect, Charles, but it’s better than this. This isn’t the only alternative! It can’t be!” “Nobody suffers here,” Charles intoned. “Nobody is ever unhappy.” “But nobody’s ever happy, either,” Meg said earnestly. “Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy. Calvin, I want to go home.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“It makes me sad. We should remember those who have left us with fondness. Speaking of them keeps their memory alive.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms