Emily Webb

“The genius of Saint Benedict is to find the presence of God in everyday life.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“If we are going to be for the world as Christ meant for us to be, we are going to have to spend more time away from the world, in deep prayer and substantial spiritual training—just as Jesus retreated to the desert to pray before ministering to the people. We cannot give the world what we do not have.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

“It’s much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief