Jack Kooyman

“You can make a drug—a way to anesthetize yourself—out of anything: working out, binge-watching TV, working, having sex, shopping, volunteering, cleaning, dieting. Any of those things can keep you from feeling pain for a while—that’s what drugs do. And, used like a drug, over time, shopping or TV or work or whatever will make you less and less able to connect to the things that matter, like your own heart and the people you love. That’s another thing drugs do: they isolate you.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

“Homophobia in any form is a serious sin against love of neighbor, a sin of ignorance of the richness and diversity of God’s creation, and a sin of exclusion.”
― Matthew Fox, A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity

“In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.”
― Diana Butler Bass, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

“When you go into the full depths and death, sometimes even the depths of your sin, you come out the other side—and the word for that is resurrection.”
― Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self