Eva

“By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.”
― wendell berry, Jayber Crow

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.”
― Shelly Miller, Rhythms of Rest: Finding the Spirit of Sabbath in a Busy World