Tamara Suttle

“Take your time, but don’t procrastinate.”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

“Don’t go away mentally or spiritually as much as you may want to. Take a stand to stay. Stay. Stay like you’ve never stayed before. Should you feel tired and want to stop, know that is the first destination the ego will take you to . . . . Don’t go back to sleep, stay. Stay awake and press on. The journey has begun.”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

“Everything good starts with a conscious decision. (p. xi)”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

“If we find ourselves offended or disturbed by elements of the Ikon services, we might ask ourselves whether the disruption of a disturbing liturgy is necessary at times to arouse people like us from the religious slumbers that so frequently overtake us - like the bizarre characters in a Flannery O'Connor novel or short story, for example - to jolt us into the realization that we routinely tolerate the intolerable in the ways we speak of God.”
― Brian D. McLaren