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 at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass. ―Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace Public Domain Image via Pexels.com
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Quote for Today: Viktor Frankl
The mental reactions of the inmates of a concentration camp must seem more to us than the mere expression of certain physical and sociological conditions. Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis … Continue reading Quote for Today: Viktor Frankl
Quote for Today: Lloyd Douglas
For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lloyd Douglas
Quote for Today: Sandra Cisneros
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. --Sandra Cisneros Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
By identifying with a craving ('I want this," "don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire. ―Richelle Goodrich, Making Wishes Image: … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Quote for Today: Emilie Autumn
I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present itself, still from … Continue reading Quote for Today: Emilie Autumn
