Heike

“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.”

"So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?"

I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton