When the English Fall Quotes

“It is hard to see who a person is, through all of those memories of who they were.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“A wife makes a far better helpmate if you remember to ask her before doing something.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“Which is God's Will? Both. Neither. And the many ways between.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“That is part of the greatest danger to our souls, a pride that can come when we set ourselves apart to be servants, but then asume that our servanthood makes us better.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“We are never really apart, as much as we choose to set ourselves different from the world that surrounds us.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“But what choice did we have? Here, on our doorstep, neighbors in need. Even if they had been strangers coming to our door, asking for help, what would we have done? It really was very simple, deciding that we would put them up.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“To keep a gun because you are afraid of dying, and because you want to be ready to kill another human being, it just feels like such a strange thing. So filled with pride, and so dead to God. I do not understand it. Why would I fear dying, when we all die?”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“I found myself remembering a movie I had seen on rumspringa, a cartoon with a mouse and magic, and the echo of the music from that film hummed in my head, just out of reach.

It would be nice to have such magic right now, I thought. But of course the whole point of that part of the movie was that you never know when the magic you rely on will overtake and drown you.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall

“Still, it is not brick, and as it flexes and shifts, I'm reminded that wood has limits, even if it is well used by careful hands. Everything in this world breaks, if you strain it hard enough.”
― David Williams, When the English Fall