Brian Hoch

“Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.”
― Teri Terry

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In family devotions it is best that the various members thereof undertake the consecutive reading in turn. When this is done it will soon become apparent that it is not easy to read the Bible aloud for others. The more artless, the more objective, the more humble one’s attitude toward the material is, the better will the reading accord with the subject.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together