David Wise

“If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering, and death.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“They are still the experience provided by my brain. It has been important for me over the years to not understand a mental illness as a character flaw or a lack of faith when it is simply an Affliction, a kind of Suffering among other kinds of Suffering. I simply have a brain that provides horrors to be seen and felt. I have a brain that provides great anguish and distress without any warning and without my volition. A mental illness, of course, is affected by and related to many other things in life, but it is most simply just that: an experience provided by the brain. I love Jesus and am still very much mentally ill. My love for Jesus has not fixed that. And Jesus’ love for me has not fixed it either. I love Jesus very, very much. And I’ve still been made to see and feel horrors.”
― John Andrew Bryant, A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

“The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly -an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a "practical" point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Back in the day there was less to consume and less to be consumed with.”
― Ralph Macchio, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me