Jessi

“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.”
― G.K. Chesterton