Ellie Benson

“The habit of grown-ups reading living books and retaining the power to digest them will be lost if we refuse to give a little time for Mother Culture. A wise mother, an admired mother and wife, when asked how, with her weak physical health and many demands on her time, she managed to read so much said, "Besides my Bible, I always keep three books going that are just for me - a stiff book, a moderately easy book, and a novel or one of poetry. I always take up the one I feel fit for. That is the secret: always have something 'going' to grow by.”
― Karen Andreola

“The example in Lamentations (as well as the book of Job) may be that lament needs to run its course. Neither the absence of human comfort nor the human attempt to diffuse and minimize the emotional response of lament serves the suffering other. It only adds to the suffering.”
― Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

“Diversity is a blessing through which we can experience God and his goodness, which makes it important to affirm, highlight, and
portray in all its forms.”
― Monét Robinson, Morning By Morning Volume 1

“When I reflect on the legacies left behind from my childhood, I am indebted to acknowledge the role my mother, grandmother, and godmothers played in my spiritual formation and personal development.”
― Monét Robinson, Morning By Morning Volume 1