Hope Whitfield

“Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”
― Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom