Grace Uitterdijk

“The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty. And yes, as we live it out, own it, inhabit our beauty, we do become more lovely. More alluring. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, “Self flashes off frame and face.” Our true self becomes reflected in our appearance. But it flows from the inside”
― John Eldredge, Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“I am looking for my heart.”
― John Eldredge

“Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“I doubt if wickedness does half as much harm as sectarianism, whether it be the sectarianism of the church or of dissent, the sectarianism whose virtue is condescension, or the sectarianism whose vice is pride. Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men, than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the Church of Christ.”
― George MacDonald, The Complete Works of George MacDonald