Amy Drees

“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else's. I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don't know. I just don't know.

Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself.”
― Tara Westover

“These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage

“I talked and he listened, drawing the shame from me like a healer draws infection from a wound.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“This humility and willingness to give up control of your life is impossible to produce without God’s help.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter