Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
~ Richard Baxter, 1615-1691, English Puritan leader

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Psalm 123 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
~ Dan B. Allender, The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God

The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.
~ Octavius Winslow, 1808-1878, Non-conformist Minister

The line between good and evil does not lie between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual. This is not to say that all humans, and all societies, are equally good or bad; far from it. Merely that we are all infected and that all easy attempts to see the problem in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ are fatally flawed.
~ N. T. Wright, professor of Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
~ Augustine, 354-430, Theologian, Philosopher