Natalie Dien

“I will tell you about your family and the different places your parents grew up, and where your ancestors came from. I will grow roots for you, so that you are not adrift and alone in the dark. You will know where you came from. You will know where you are going.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“It is possible for Christians to live their lives with a high degree of phoniness, hollowness, and inauthenticity. The reason is because they have failed to move the truth into their hearts and therefore it has not actually changed who they are and how they live.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller

“Remember how you were soft and easily hurt, before your skin hardened to ceramic, your heart to steel. What it meant to break and ache and heal.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God—but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people—and this is not learned in five minutes.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest