^{The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
~ Blaise Pascal}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
~ Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, mathematician & physicist

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
~ William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997, American writer and visual artist

~~~~~~~~ Mark 5:21-36 ~~~~~~~~

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
~ Jim Carrey, 1962- , actor and comedian

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
~ Alain de Botton, 1969- , Swiss-born British author and speaker

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only—still, I left.
~ Mihail Drumeş, 1901-1982, an Ottoman-born Romanian prose writer and playwright.

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you’re new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it’ll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.
~ David Foster Wallace author of Infinite Jest

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face, questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
~ C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, British writer & lecturer

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, Am. writer, publisher, philosopher