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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light. A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass.
- Barbara Kingsolver
An apple tree 'mong wild trees, My Love is in my sight, I sit down in his shadow, His fruit is my delight.
- Hannah Hurnard
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
- Carl Jung
But that was before the curse, before the shadow fell across the garden of Adam, before the shadow fell across the heart of Adam. And ever since the curse, we've been different. Beastly. Ugly. Defiant. Angry. We do things we know we shouldn't do and wonder why we did them.
- Max Lucado
Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
- Billy Graham
When we learn to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, we're positioned to discover the key to true kingdom fruitfulness. Reproductive power is unlocked in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Bob Sorge
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
- George Eliot
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because it's only a shadow.
- Ted Dekker
Be careful, Grace, Bobbie's familiar voice warned. An echo in my mind alone. And then she was there, standing across the street, hidden in shadow, invisible to others because she was there only for me. To protect me, I thought. Against things coming. My father had come and brought the boy, Eli. Protect your heart. Even from the boy? From everything. Yes, I thought, protect my heart from everything.
- Ted Dekker
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. "Suicide does not happen on a sudden impulse. It is an act that has been rehearsed during years of unconscious punitive behavior patterns."
- Brennan Manning