The strategies I had been using my entire life—hustling, overworking, overthinking, and constantly shifting to accommodate the dysfunction that surrounded me—they had kept me alive, yes, but now they were taking their toll.
“Learned desperation is at the heart of a praying life.”
― A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
― A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
“I don’t believe it is wise or truthful to the power of the gospel to identify oneself by the sins of one’s past or the temptations of one’s present but rather to only be defined by the Christ who’s overcome both for those He calls His own.”
― Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
― Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
“The law has the power to show us that we are not righteous; but it cannot give us the power to be righteous.”
― Galatians For You
― Galatians For You
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“In order to forgive we must first believe that someone has wronged us but we cannot forgive as long as we remain wrapped up in our pain and outrage. The gateway to forgiving is being able to experience empathy for those who have done us harm, and you cannot truly forgive if you cannot develop empathy for those who harmed you.”
― Let Us Prey: The Plague of Narcissist Pastors and What We Can Do About It
― Let Us Prey: The Plague of Narcissist Pastors and What We Can Do About It
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