Laura Ohlman

“Jesus does not care even the tiniest bit what you do for your salvation, because there is nothing you can do for it. But He cares very much what you do with it.”
― Rachel Jankovic, Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood

“Because technology is devoted primarily to making our lives easier, it discourages us from disciplines, especially ones that involve disentangling ourselves from technology itself.”
― Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

“What tends to happen with situations like this is that the parents get irritated and end up disciplining. They may still feel like they really enforced the law. But the truth is, they bullied.”
― Rachel Jankovic, Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood

“The deep-seated worrying, the excuses, and the overthinking of a simple invitation should be warning signs, telling us we’re confusing social entertaining with hospitality. When we use our lives exactly as they are, desiring only to create a sacred space for our guests, mixing it with the countercultural truth of loving Jesus and loving others, we turn entertaining upside down, and it becomes radical hospitality.”
― Jen Schmidt, Just Open the Door: How One Invitation Can Change a Generation