Barbara Harper

“Your worth isn’t earned. Scripture speaks honestly about our condition—sinners by nature, hostile to God. And yet God’s love reaches across the divide, not because we deserved it, but because love is who He is. (From Mercy Mild: A 25-Day Christmas Devotional Tracing Christ’s Love from Eden to Eternity by Josh Taylor)”
― Josh Taylor, A Preach Well Church: How Churches Can Stop Burning Out Pastors

“God’s love for his children wasn’t just for them to have and to hold, it was to freely, spontaneously give away—and to gratefully receive from others.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved

“With war raging around the world and suffering everywhere, how extraordinary, how beautiful this life could be. There were no words, really. No words.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel

“I realize how sweet solitude is when it is not enforced, how contented it is possible to be in one’s own company when it is not the only possibility one has.”
― Tracy Rees, Amy Snow