Nicole Howell

“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.”
― Anne Lamott

“I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves”
― Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems