You're too sweet for your own damn good.

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from yo — Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

I need to hear the words of this book—its truth, forgiveness, hope—as much as anybody.” Nathaniel looked up with an apol — Julie Klassen, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this exist — Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my — J.D. Greear, Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly — while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was — Lora Leigh, Wild Card

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation. Here we find the po — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them) — it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile — esteem without love is languid and cold.

Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he d — Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

$The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner’s lips. Then he glanced — Anna Myers, Spy!$

interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxf — Ross Cheit

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