Instead of asking God why he allows suffering, ask yourself why you're so afraid of becoming someone who can carry it. The question was never why bad things happen to good people but why good people refuse to become great enough to transform bad things into something beautiful
The father who shows mercy to this world shows cruelty to his children, for he who will not draw his sword against darkness draws it against light, he who will not hate what destroys love destroys love
Whatever rule protects you from making mistakes also protects you from making miracles, which is why the most terrifying question isn't what could go wrong, it's what could go so right that it destroys your excuses for staying small
The word you plant in another's mind dies in your mouth but lives forever in their soul, and every sentence you speak either plants wheat or weeds in the garden of someone's becoming, so choose your words like you're feeding your own children, because long after your voice falls silent, your words will still be growing in minds you'll never meet, harvesting futures you'll never see
obsession is the only honest relationship with the infinite, lukewarm souls produce a lukewarm god, and every man who ever moved mountains first had to be possessed by the vision of where those mountains belonged
in dostoevsky’s crime and punishment, marmeladov dies drunk in dirt. spent his kids food money on vodka. again. daughter sonja finds him bleeding in the street. he's dying. she holds his drunk head whispers father forgive me. not asking forgiveness. giving it. for the hunger he brought them. for choosing bottle over bread. for being worthless. she calls him father like he earned it. he didn't. dies hearing love he never deserved from the child he ruined. love that doesn't care about deserving. just gives itself anyway. sonja forgives what can't be forgiven. holds garbage and calls it sacred. her tears fall on his blood fall on holy dirt. this is how love actually works. not because you're worth it. because someone decides you are anyway