“The love of family and friends can help ease the pain, but the only love that sweeps up the flattened, broken pieces and puts them back together is the unending, unconditional, unfathomable love of God.”
Source: Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal
“God was there with Jesus all along, and he is with you right now no matter how dark your situation may seem.”
Source: Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal
“This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who have entrusted all their hopes to it, all their love and their last efforts. There are dying men or others who are waiting for a debt to come due, who wish that tomorrow would never come. There are others for whom the day will break like a pang of remorse; and others who are tired, for whom the night will never be long enough to give them the rest that they need. And I - who have lost my day - what right do I have to wish that tomorrow comes?”
Source: Le Grand Meaulnes
“I pray God will meet you in each lonely moment and remind you of his promise, that you will come to know him through this season in a new way and by a new name. he is the God who sees you.”
Source: Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal
“I am not defined by what tried to break me—I am defined by the woman I chose to become.”
Source: After The Breaking: I Survived What Tried to Kill Me: My Journey of Faith, Healing, and Reclaiming My Life
“We get a second chance at everything, including our mistakes.”
Source: The Good Mother of Marseille
“Wir setzen uns an einen Tisch unter dem Platanen auf den alten Platz. Hier haben die Griechen einst die Agora der Stadt erbaut, die Akropolis. Heute steht an dieser Stelle die Église des Accoules, deren Name entweder von Anchovis, anchois, abgeleitet sein soll oder von den encoules, den kleinen Bögen, die die Kirche stützen. Die Historiker behaupten, dass die Kinder hier früher nach der Messe eine Pastete oder eine Wurst bekamen. Man sprach sogar von Unserer lieben Frau der Würste”
Source: Die Gassen von Marseille
“Marseille ist keine Stadt für Touristen. Es gibt dort nichts zu sehen. Seine Schönheit lässt sich nicht fotografieren. Sie teilt sich mit. Hier muss man Partei ergreifen. Sich engagieren. Dafür oder dagegen sein. Leidenschaftlich sein. Erst dann wird sichtbar, was es zu sehen gibt. Und dann ist man, wenn auch zu spät, mitten in einem Drama. Einem antiken Drama, in dem der Held der Tod ist. In Marseille muss man sogar kämpfen, um zu verlieren.”
Source: Marseille Trilogie
“There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.”
Source: Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
“He was tall in the bed and I could see the silver through his eyelids. His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do—the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, “I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come.” Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping. He lay in my arms and rested. There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there that he hoped to read one day.”
Source: The Book Thief