Jacinta

“Who we are and who we are becoming is formed as much, if not more, by our unique way of responding.”
― Leslie Vernick

“Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.”
― Leslie Vernick, Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy