Brandee Shafer

“I extended to them [my congregation] an invitation to join me in this crazy practice of picturing our discouragement and doubt as a real force that wants to defy God, then to join me in picturing evil and darkness not as powerful and unstoppable but as desperate and vulnerable.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“The thing people don't always want to realize is that stories have great power whether they get told or not.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

“The most simple and mundane things can take on deep and memorable dimensions depending on where we are, or with whom, or any number of things.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments