Tanja Writes

“The world can make you think that love can be picked up at a garage sale or enveloped in a Hallmark card. But the kind of love that God created then demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence.”
― Bob Goff

“God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honours Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God