Sarah

“To be a Baptist in Soviet Russia was to know that you were a permanent outsider. They endured it because they knew that truth was embodied in Jesus Christ, and that to live apart from him would mean living a lie.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“Yet, by March 9, when Italy imposed its first lockdown, the country had suffered only about nine thousand coronavirus cases and five hundred deaths. With one of the world’s oldest populations and harsh northern winters, Italy regularly suffered severe winter flu epidemics. In the winter of 2014–2015 and again in 2016–2017, influenza and other flu-like illnesses had killed more than forty thousand Italians—eighty times as many as had died from the coronavirus at the time of the lockdown.”
― Alex Berenson, Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
― D.L. Moody

“Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon