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“Even now, she cannot stop searching for a way out of her skin and into a life that fits all her fire.”
― Magic with Skin On
― Magic with Skin On
“More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.”
― The Refugees
― The Refugees
“It happens to all of us," I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. "God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“By the time our conversation ended last night, Hannah had taken a huge turn. She learned that the doubts, fears, and self-centeredness were really the opposite of the faith, hope, and love described in 1 Corinthians 13. She knew that she still lacked faith and hope, and still wrestled with doubts and fears. But little Jenny had shown her that the answer to self-centeredness isn’t endless self-examination, but simply love—a love that reaches outside of itself, and focuses on helping those whose plight is worse than our own.”
― A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
― A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
“lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.”
― The Refugees
― The Refugees
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