“The Lord tends to come at the moment of great alarm, when we're 'ready to sink into despair.”
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.”
“Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off.”
“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
“Learn to trust your instincts more often. They tend to be the most accurate alarm.”
“We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.”