Hannah

“The point is this: there is nothing in your hands that God won’t replace with more of Himself. So let it go. Let it fly. Let it burn. God is better anyway. It might hurt. It might suck. You might miss it. You might have to sacrifice some things. Confess some stuff. But on the other side of surrender is God.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For

“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night