Air Quote by Wesley Clark

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my…

— George H. W. Bush

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from…

— Hermann Hesse

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with…

— Tammy Duckworth

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me…

— Jonathan Cain

It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I…

— Nate Saint

Since I was a kid, I always felt like God had placed something inside my heart. And I always believed that God was going…

— Danny Gokey

I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like…

— Richard Blanco

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt…

— Dinaw Mengestu

When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my…

— Riccardo Tisci

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could…

— Angelina Jolie

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God…

— Karen Armstrong

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in…

— Hermann Hesse