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“I had to let go of my need to know everything before I moved ahead; I had to learn to function in the mystery.”
― Wilma Derksen, The Way of Letting Go: One Woman's Walk toward Forgiveness

“The message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, and the life changes what we presently are. He is not a means by which we solve problems. He is not a means to avoid problems. He creates new life. He is not a problem solver but a person creator.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Every Step an Arrival: A 90-Day Devotional for Exploring God's Word

“What's fascinating about this list is that ten people with a a slew of medals among them decided that the two most important determinants of mental toughness - believing you can achieve a goal and having the ability to pick yourself up after you fail - have nothing whatsoever to do with performance and everything to do with persevering through doubt, disappointment, and other forms of discomfort.”
― Amanda Lang, The Beauty of Discomfort: How What We Avoid Is What We Need

“God reveals himself, that is, in creation and in Christ, in ways we can see and hear and touch and taste, in place and person. Beauty is the term we apply to these hints of transcendence, these perceptions that there is more going on here than we can account for.

And that is how we come to identify as apostles of the gospel the men and women and, yes, children, who use words and images and sounds and textures to wake us up to beauty latent and implicit all around us.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God