Melissa Krabbe

“Take the reasons you think you are gathering—because it’s our departmental Monday-morning meeting; because it’s a family tradition to barbecue at the lake—and keep drilling below them. Ask why you’re doing it. Every time you get to another, deeper reason, ask why again. Keep asking why until you hit a belief or value.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw—a hope or belief or conviction—that a life is not fixed, a thing unalterable.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The origin stories of Scripture remind us we belong to a very large and very old family that has been walking with God from the beginning. Even when we falter and fall, this God is in it for the long haul. We will not be abandoned.”
― Rachel Held Evans

“Every fall God turns water into wine in France and Chile and the Napa Valley.”
― Cynthia A. Jarvis, Feasting on the Gospels--John, Volume 1: A Feasting on the Word Commentary