Being among the trees was like being watched. No . . . not watched. Watched over. Being acknowledged, being seen, but not being judged. “We welcome you,” the trees whispered. They welcomed him, yet they didn’t impose upon him or ask to know
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“As bad as your parents may be at their worst, they are the only parents you’ll ever have.”
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
“Elijah’s fear drove him to the point of being cared for by God, almost as a child—with food to eat, with a place to sleep, with a response to his cries. That’s the direction fear leads when it is leading us away from self-sufficiency and toward the gospel by which we stand. In those cases, fear is not just a reaction but a revelation.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.”
― Billy Summers
― Billy Summers
“When I thought of my mother, it was always as a presence - a role, almost - and it was strange to be faced with a truth that should have been obvious, that she had been someone with her own dreams and aspirations, who had felt the same as I had, and who had once had a life that existed entirely outside of her relationship to me.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
“It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
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