Mark Matousek famous quotes

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.
-- Mark Matousek

#Heart #Grace #Break

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.
-- Mark Matousek

#Mean #Cry #Walks

When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.
-- Mark Matousek

#Heart #Knowing #Long

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.
-- Mark Matousek

#Stronger #Things Change #Remember

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.
-- Mark Matousek

#Artist #Achievement #Effort

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.