57 Quotes by Kevin Brockmeier

The people were created in the image of God and thus they were within the precinct of His grace, even the ones who didn’t know Him... the ones who withdrew themselves from His presence.

But why did he remember only the things in life that had hurt him? Why couldn’t he remember the things that had given him joy or caused him to smile: the jokes he had heard, the songs that had made him lift his arms in the air, the people who had loved him, whose cheeks he had touched with his fingers?

She felt for a moment the child’s guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him. She that it wasn’t the getting to know him part that would convict her in the end. It was the finally.