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“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“I don’t b’lieve in ‘evil’ in most ways,” Miz Lottie said. “I believe in the devil, all right, but man don’t need no help from Satan to do what folks call ‘evil.’ Man do evil ev’ry day and call it doin’ their job.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth bed down, searching for his face. But with no eyes, he can't see. Lie, he sneaky. He snatch up Truth's face and run off! Zip! Now Lie go around wearing Truth's face, fooling everybody he meet.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“A maturing community is a confessing community—not a church without sin, but a church without secrets.”
― Tyler Staton, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

“When it comes to prayer, God isn’t grading essays; he’s talking to children.”
― Tyler Staton, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“That’s the nice thing about books. You can experience all different people and all sorts of places through them. All in the safety and comfort of your own home.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“This whole world is a lie - the bad things, the good things. Only God's kingdom is the truth. And when i meet Jesus face-to-face, you can bet I'll have some questions. But 'til then, I don't know why some got so much and we got so little. Could be a test. But I feel God blessing me, Gloria." "But how do you know?" "It ain't my head that knows," Miz Lottie said. "But my heart do.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“If the world could be fluid for you once, how many more times could you make it dance according to your whimsy?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“In all the stories, sojourners in Hell rarely perished there. It was in the world of the living where they met their tragic ends.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis