Heike

“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

“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

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
― Francis Chan

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer