Joanna

“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”
― Frances Mayes, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian

“God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels