Hannah

“As A. J. Swoboda so beautifully said, “Sabbath is a scheduled weekly reminder that we are not what we do; rather, we are who we are loved by.”
― Jon Tyson, Beautiful Resistance: The Joy of Conviction in a Culture of Compromise

“I don’t think most people want to do what’s right. That’s what makes doing the right thing noble. It’s a conscious choice. A hard one. If it were easy, then why would we respect it so much?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant

“Every crisis raises relational issues: Will you try it and handle it yourself? Will you find a new partner? Or will you and Jesus tackle the crisis together? In tackling the stuff of life together, you’ll see that your relationship with God will deepen. In pondering Christ, you find that you are in fact living His life, and God is living yours. Christ in you and you in Christ. God doesn’t lead you through phases or steps.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus Manifesto

“For those who feel alienated from their sex, who feel like they
can’t get warm in their bodies, no matter how many layers they put
on, Jesus offers hope. Not the hope of a differently sexed body, but
the hope of a new reality that no longer feels like labor pains. The
transgender person I met after my talk in England thanked me for
treating these questions with tenderness. But Jesus’s tenderness utterly surpasses ours. It’s the tenderness of the God who likens his love to
that of a nursing mother (Isa. 49:15). We can trust our fragile bodies to
this God, however out of joint with them we feel, because he loves us
with an everlasting love. One day he will wipe away every tear from
our eyes and make our groaning bodies new.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin