Home > Work > Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11 QUOTES

Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11 QUOTES

1 " It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the same time. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

2 " We see with our hearts. Our eyes are simple catalysts that carry images. Our eyes capture flowers and out heart knows serenity. Our eyes capture a child at play and our heart knows joy. They capture beauty and we know love. They capture war and we are acquainted with mortality. My eyes captured hatred and suffering, and my heart knew sorrow. They captured death and destruction and my heart knew fear. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

3 " I believe the signs we are seeing today most certainly point to the rapture of the church. These are indeed end times. I believe that one day very soon, Jesus Christ Himself will come in the clouds and millions of people will see their battles end...
I believe that followers of Christ from all around the world, of every race, creed, color, age, economic standing, and religious affiliation will vanish in a single moment of time ... gone. The Word of God describes it as a 'twinkling of an eye.' In an instant, there will be boardrooms without directors, classrooms without teachers, hospitals without doctors and nurses, cars without drivers, airplanes without pilots, and loved ones disappearing mid-sentance and mid-morning coffee. I am sure that complete chaos won't even begin to describe it. I imagine a worldwide crescendo of screaming voices.
When the dust clears, everone left on earth will know emptiness beyond description and a greater sense of evil than has ever been thought to exist. It will be the condition of things. Overwhelming sadness, confusion, loss, and insecurity will be worldwide. It will happen at that time, even as it did on that September morning. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

4 " What kind of motherless soul can so easily and savagely murder thousands and proclaim it all to be in the name of righteousness? What kind of righteousness annihilates lives with such contempt and in such a grand scope that it leaves an entire world mourning? "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

5 " I often wonder how many prayers flooded the gates of Heaven that day. How many Christians, or otherwise, called on the Lord? How many Jews looked for the Almighty? How many others called, by whatever name, on the one true God? How many nonbelievers, if only for a moment, and if only to ask how this could happen, believed in Him and called on His name: "Jesus"? "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

6 " Just then, in that instant, I saw His eyes. I recognised them. They were the eyes of that trembling father in a smoke-filled room on the ninety-third floor of Tower One, dialing his little girls for the last time. Those were the eyes behind that calming voice singing 'Amazing Grace' in a crowded and slippery stairwell, trapped outside a roof door when the ceilings began to cave. The eyes of the people who stayed behind with the handicapped victims waiting for police officers who never made it up the stairs. Those were the eyes of firemen who pushed me to safety, the doctor who cared for me for more than a year free of charge, the therapist who visited my home regularly so that I could sleep a little, the children who loved me, the brother who prayed nonstop, and the pastor who became my friend. Those were the eyes of God. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

7 " God’s grace has nothing to do with any goodness of ours, who we are, what we know, or where we are in life. It has all to do with the nature of Him. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

8 " Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all. "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

9 " I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I’m not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN "

― Leslie Haskin , Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11