Karen

“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”
― Susan Meissner, The Shape of Mercy

“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
― Jim Elliot

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Winston Churchill

“If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.”
― Liz Curtis Higgs, Here Burns My Candle