Jacob Rutledge

“The refusal to mourn our earlier disappointments condemns us and rigidifies us, as it did Lot’s wife. Genuine grief is the deep sadness and weeping that expresses the acceptance of our inability to do anything about our losses. It is a prelude to letting go, to relinquishment. It is dying that precedes resurrection. Our sadness reveals what we have been invested in; it is the cost of a commitment which has been shattered.”
― H. Norman Wright, Recovering from Losses in Life

“True holiness, exemplified in Christ, reaches out to people in their messy brokenness and sinfulness, always to serve them and enable them to live more fully. When things are indeed orderly—when our parents genuinely love each other, when people live chastely, or when we are fully healthy—the holy person is grateful. But never does a wholesome concern for orderly appearances lead the holy person to fail to see or avoid serving where there is brokenness, be it sinful or otherwise.”
― William C. Mattison III, Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues

“Prayer is abandoning ourselves to God with radical trust, and then remaining there in attentive vulnerability.”
― Thomas Acklin, Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love