“I hope you write something really good. Something you believe in,” Stuart Whitworth speaking to Skeeter Phelan in Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help.”
“Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too,” Henrich Heine
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference,” Robert Frost.
“Anyone who truly understands how God’s grace comes to us will have a changed life. That’s the Gospel, not salvation by law, or by cheap grace, but by costly grace. Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither law nor cheap grace can do that,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
“Worry cleavers the mind, splitting thoughts between today and tomorrow,” Max Lucado.
Psalm 139.
“It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless, ” Donald Miller.
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God,” William Carey.
“First, beat reporting requires patience. Resist the urge to write the big story until you gain seasoning and nuance. …Second, beat reporting requires perspective. After a while, beat writers start writing too much ‘inside baseball’ …Be sure to have a ‘kitchen cabinet’ of colleagues and friends who can set you straight,” Joe Verrengia, The Associated Press
“Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world,” Andy Andrews, from “The Butterfly Effect.”
“It’s part of the writer’s routine, collecting half-told tales and then letting them slip away. But they always leave a mark in my memory, like the ghost of an ancient artifact,” Peter Hessler, “Oracle Bones.”
