“The people who slowly became typical have the greatest problem wrapping their minds around a dynamic friendship with an invisible, alive God.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Jesus talked to His friends a lot about how we should identify ourselves. He said it wouldn’t be what we said we believed or all the good we hoped to do someday. Nope, He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is some
one we become.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
one we become.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.”
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Lexi’s 2025 Year in Books
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