#highlight

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing. ↗

— Laura Greenwald

#experience

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake. ↗

— Danielle Ganek

#experience

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act. ↗

— Sara Miles

#faith

for God's sake, let's be done with the hypocrisy of claiming "I am a biblical literalist" when everyone is a selective literalist, especially those who swear by the antihomosexual laws in the Book of Leviticus and then feast on barbecued ribs and delight in Monday-night football, for it is toevali, an abomination, not only to eat pork but merely to touch the skin of a dead pig. ↗

— Walter Wink

#faith

My dad is shagging your aunt, probably right now. That makes us almost family. ↗

— Jennifer Ashley

#family

That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better. ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom. ↗

— Cynthia Heald

#freedom

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom. ↗

— Cynthia Heald

#freedom

It has been observed that "none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free. ↗

— Cynthia Heald

#freedom

American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win, ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom