Maddie Spadafore

“What he is, he does. He cannot act any other way. His life proves his heart.”
― Dane Ortlund

“Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“But we are neither the first nor the smartest to read the Bible.”
― Dane Ortlund

“et German theologian Jürgen Moltmann points out that miracles are not in interruption of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. We are so used to have fallen world that sickness, disease, pain, and death seem natural. In fact, they are the interruption.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers