Elena

“When the church isn’t for the suffering and broken, then the church isn’t for Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“You love him, I can see it."
"More than anything."
That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations.”
― Jan Karon

“You are the most loved not when you’re pretending to have it all together; you are actually the most loved when you feel broken and falling apart.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life