Jim Vivanco

“But he who hopes in the Lord, mercy shall encircle him.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“The future is fantasy--it doesn’t exist--but the needy and demanding person you may have to give yourself to today is reality.  Christianity is the reality of Christ in us, and not the fantasy.”
― Jeri Massi, Secret Radio by Grace Jovian: My Senior Year at a Christian Fundamentalist College by Grace Jovian

“Would that I could make musicians out of stone, and dancers out of the sand of the lake, and minstrels out of the leaves of all the trees in the mountains, so that they might help me glorify the Lord-and so that the voice of the earth might be heard amidst the choirs of angels!”
― St. Nikolai Velimirovich, Prayers by the Lake

“It was like we had broken out of a lifetime of prison after realizing the door had been unlocked the entire time!”
― Jennifer Brewer, Free: From Legalism to Grace Breaking Out of the United Pentecostal Church