Jenny Rice

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I had hope for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it.”
― Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

“If I affirm that the universe was created by a power of love,” she wrote, “and that all creation is good, I am not proclaiming safety. Safety was never part of the promise. Creativity, yes; safety, no. All creativity is dangerous.”7”
― Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

“Stop thinking of hope as a feeling then. But instead, it’s something you work at, something you recommit to every day. It’s showing up and doing it scared. Fear is a cult that claims too many. It lures you in with faulty promises of safety. It wants to change your very identity and keep you bound to its lies. Not one decision I made out of fear has ever served me”
― Jenny B. Jones, Forever Your Girl