Alex McBride

“What we need is the healed capacity to imagine and believe the profound goodness of the future, to stand in the light of a happy ending whose power reaches into our present and draws us forward in hope.”
― Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

“We are called to faithfulness, to lives whose soil becomes the place where the stories of others are rooted. We are members one of another, and the way we deal with our sorrow and claim our hope will become the soil for the stories of our children and our spouses, our neighbors and our friends.”
― Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“We were not created for disaster nor formed for destruction, and to lament our pain is to honor the beauty God intended and yearn toward its restoration.”
― Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness