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“I remained convinced that it was my job to be Jesus to others, so much so that I missed many chances to let others be Jesus to me-to teach me, heal me, to sit with me, to break bread with me, to listen to me, to weep with me, to call me to repentance, to love me.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

“When I was a Bible-thumping, churchgoing, know-it-all Republican, God used bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberals to teach me a little bit more about how to be human and to toy with my concretized notions of who my enemies were. And now that I'm a bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberal, God still insists on using Bible-thumping, churchgoing, know-it-all Republicans to teach me a little bit more about how to be human and to toy with my concretized notions of who my enemies are.”
― Rachel Held Evans

“...I stumbled upon a poem by Daniel Ladinsky drawn from the words of that eccentric saint:

I think God might be a little prejudiced.
For once He asked me to join Him on a walk
through this world,
and we gazed into every heart on this earth,
and I noticed He lingered a bit longer
before any face that was
weeping,
and before any eyes that were
laughing.
And sometimes when we passed
a soul in worship,
God too would kneel
down.
I have come to learn: God
adores His
creation.

...Still, I think, deep in their hearts, most people want to believe that they are somehow worthy of love and belonging, that their worst day of suffering or their best day of wholeheartedness is not better than they deserve. I think most people yearn for a God who not merely tolerates but also adores God's creation. I think most people still long for a God who kneels down.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

“Fulfillment starts with being truly honest with yourself. Not anyone else. Yourself. And that's harder than you might think.”
― Sierra Grace