Lindsey

“There's something about being told you're worthy from another person that feels better than when you tell yourself in a mirror.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“The concept of the soul is the profoundest possible bond among us, an unshakable basis for compassion, recognition, and love, which, acknowledged, would enable us to love enemies, welcome strangers, and all the rest.”
― Marilynne Robinson, What Are We Doing Here?

“At the same time that we rejected the conception of a God who could be called loving or passionate, we ceased to attend to like qualities in ourselves.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good and evil. From that point the road branches: one way to sanctity, love, humility, the other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal. And no way back to the mere humdrum virtues and vices of the unawakened soul. If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God. There seems no way out of this. It gives a new application to Our Lord’s words about ‘counting the cost’.”
― C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms