hannah knowland

“Without seeing the depths of sin, we’ll never understand the heights of God’s love and grace.”
― Kyle Idleman, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins

“I thought ... that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it. I thought that the good things He sent drew me into them as the waves lift the islands; but now I see that it is I who plunge into them with my own legs and arms, as when we go swimming. I feel as if I were living in that roofless world of [Earth] where men walk undefended beneath naked heaven. It is a delight with terror in it! One's own self to be walking from one good to another, walking beside Him as Himself may walk, not even holding hands. How has He made me so separate from Himself? How did it enter His mind to conceive such a thing? The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“I think God pays attention to our hearts and enjoys when people want to get close to Him. He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“You can’t have living without dying.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting