11 quotes found
“Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.”
“I, the infirm, find myself caring for the sorrows and fears of the well.”
“With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.”
“The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.”
“To walk in faith is to confess that we do not know what awaits us, and the faith I have embraced does not promise an easy road.”
“There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We subm...”
“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure....”
“I do not like being thwarted, but shall I receive good from the God and not also trouble? The voices that say Recover so you can get back to normal, grossly underestimate the gift of this wrecked l...”
“Walking through suffering is a work that is bound by limitation. Often it isn't that the afflicted are unwilling to let others in. It is just that there comes a certain point in a person's sufferin...”
“If I wanted, I could come up with reasons to be angry with everyone I know; there are sins of commission or omission I could hang on every last person in my life The truth is, I will never run out ...”
“This woman did not know me, but she knew this stretch of trail. She didn't know if I was kind or mean, gentle or abrasive, honest or a liar. She didn't need to know what I had accomplished in life ...”
