“Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“I was a tree in a story about a forest, the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree”
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“Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying...
Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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