Favorite Quotes
“The dream is ended: this is the morning.” — Aslan (The Chronicles of Narnia)
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” Marcus Aurelius
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-this is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are, especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself: “But I am this person” And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love.”
— Mrs. Dodger [Phoebe in Wonderland] (2008)
“I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.“ J.K. Rowling
“Sometimes you think you don’t have hope, but you keep on anyways, then you know you have hope.”—Phoebe in Wonderland
“[Jesus] continually expresses Himself in hope, forgiveness, love, patience, care, compassion, tenderness, freedom, and life…[Isaiah] dared to describe God as a Bridegroom rejoicing over His bride, as a Mother who will never forget Her child, and a Redeemer whose love drove Him to die an innocent death for the sake of the guilty…” - Benji Nolot
““The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind,to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Luke 4:18-19
“For me it was about… I just felt that I wanted to be tied to the oldest version of what I believed. Something that had some measure of authority and consistency. That’s not how I grew up. I grew up in something very autonomous and kind of like… “Well, you have to interpret the Bible yourself because the Holy Spirit is with you.” It’s a nice sentiment, but I didn’t think it worked at all. Like, why are there so many different kinds of churches? It’s all from the same book, I don’t understand?
I was just thinking that this was not logical… I… I don’t want to make too many strong statements, but I was kind of at the point then where I was like, “I’d rather be Atheist than Protestant. I don’t think it makes any sense.” That’s how I felt at the time, which is a little less extreme than now in terms of how I feel about the Protestant church now, I love it. I think that they gave me a lot of good gifts.
But I didn’t think it made sense, I just didn’t understand. The Catholic church to me just offered this… for good or ill, they’ve had their problems, but they stay the same. They grow and they change in that way, but they hold their ground. “This is what it is and this is how it works. Deal with it.” I responded really well to that. That is what I want. I want to belong to a church that knows what it is and it is what it is. It doesn’t apologize for that.
I knew that I’d always have to wrestle through questions and issues, you know, teachings and all that stuff, but it gives me some place to plant my roots. I have to wrestle through this stuff and I know that I can rely on the consistency of the church through that process. There’s a lot more to why I did it, but that’s ultimately the catalyst for my changing. You have to set me on fire to the ashes to get me to move.
”—Audrey Assad, on converting to Catholicism from Protestantism
