as deep calls to deep

about me: living

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."
--Richard Wright

"We live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and free character of the living God." -- Walter Brueggemann

"Sometimes we speak to change the world; other times we speak to keep the world from changing us...We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we find out who polluted it." -- Shane Claiborne

"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." -- Philippians 4:8

“Sail away from the safe harbor...Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." -- Karl, age 5

'the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love' --Colossians 3:12-14

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Know thyself." -- Socrates

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