Quote for Today: Rick Bass
How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. ―Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of …
How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. ―Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of …
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a …
Sometimes it’s easier to give compassion to those whose troubles fell upon them undeserved. But those who’ve, from our perspective, tangled themselves up all on their own—they need compassion every …
Where are our heroes? Where are our role models? Why are we leaving youth behind and laughing at the ones who are still there? Why not help each other out …
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually …
It is unearned love–the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are …
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. “I can’t do this,” I said. “I don’t …
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced …
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where …