Amanda

“We don’t praise God to feel good, but to do good.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“days of spiritual dryness, doubt, and estrangement from God as “the dark night of the soul.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston Churchill