“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
“Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy”
“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”
“We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.”
“To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.”
“If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive.”