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“If you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can move mountains.”
“Money is not nearly as important as human kindness,”
“Money is not nearly as important as human kindness,”
“You don’ have to know how or why faith work—you jus’ got to make sure you find some when you feelin’ lost.”
“Getting you to lose your hope the biggest weapon they gots. So our best weapon is to hold on to hope, however we can.”
We don’ get to pick how big our good gets to be, but each of us picks if we gonna do some good right where we are.”
“If enough people put their drop of water in the same place, then we can make a flower bloom . . . right in the middle of the desert.”
“The Sower casts his seeds wherever he goes. Mos’ of the seeds ain’t gonna take root and blossom—but some will. You a sower today, baby. You cast seeds of knowledge to those chil’ren. You ain’t gonna know how or where or if they gonna blossom, but you did God’s work today—you sowed some seeds.”
“An ugly truth is preferable to a beautiful lie. I am certain that I wish to help Mattie and Samuel however we may. Do we have a plan?”
“These folks are our kith, the people we are connected to because of our choices. Somewhere between friends and family.”
As Mama says, I will not know which seeds will take root and flourish, but the sowing itself is an act of faith. In the midst of so much ongoing ugliness, these are the faces of hope.
