Cassie

“O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea, let all my bones say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee? Let them say, and answer Thou me, and say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Who am I, and what am I? What evil have not been either my deeds, or if not my deeds, my words, or if not my words, my will? But Thou, O Lord, are good and merciful, and Thy right hand had respect unto the depth of my death, and from the bottom of my heart emptied that abyss of corruption. And this Thy whole gift was, to nill what I willed, and to will what Thou willedst.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine

“Stars
Out of all the stars,
you were the one he looked to at night.
Not knowing that to him you shone brighter than the rest.
Even if there was an over abundance of bigger or brighter stars,
you were always the one
his eyes fell to.
The light he knew would guide him.
The one he searched for even on the most overcast nights.
I bet if you didn't spend time comparing your qualities to the others,
you would have noticed his eyes always locked on you.
But remeber he is the one who
knew you shone,
even before you did yourself.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Uncaged Wallflower

“Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith”
― Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

“Sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas and sometimes I have colossally bad ideas.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea