Katie Bliss

“Be merciful to yourself, stop fighting yourself quite so much. Maybe what you are asking of yourself, what you're driving yourself to do or to be, what you put a gun to your own back to make yourself do, is something at this point you needn't have to think about doing. So, think back at the end of the day to the wars you're involved in. How are they going?”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

“As God transforms you to be more like Him, as your heart mirrors His more perfectly, you can expect two different things: (1) You should experience the ability to increasingly live as you were created to live, and (2) You should also feel deeper pain when you do not. And it is this very pain that confirms that you are in the process of changing. This pain helps you remember that you are no longer the person you once were. Even on our worst days, then, even on those days when you feel so out of sorts that you hardly know yourself, you must remember that this discomfort, these growing pains assure that you are made for more.”
― Hannah Anderson, Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

“But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I know it well after a day smattered with rowdiness and worn a bit ragged with bickering, that I may feel disappointment and the despair may flood high, but to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.”
― Ann Voskamp, Selections from One Thousand Gifts: Finding Joy in What Really Matters