“All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.”
“For me, it was faith that kept me going when I wanted to give up. I knew that God meant for me to fulfill a purpose in life.”
“God give me strength God give me faithIn you & in myself In my unclear future And in life itself”
“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not to give up real work for the sake of scribbling.”
“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
“God wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.”