Shannon
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“An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. He may hide what he does because he thinks other people would disagree with it, but he feels justified inside8.”
“If you take away one truth, the one thing in this book I know with certainty, let it be this: your life is a good gift from a loving God, even when subjectively it doesn’t feel good or like a gift, and even when you doubt that God is loving. Please get out of bed anyway.”
― On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
― On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
“But we can’t enable bad behavior in ourselves and others and call it love. We can’t tolerate destructive patterns and call it love. And we can’t pride ourselves on being loyal and longsuffering in our relationships when it’s really perpetuating violations of what God says love is.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“We do not have—nor are we able—to jump from trauma to trust or from fear to faith.”
― The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love
― The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love
“Healthy relationships don’t feel threatening. Loving relationships don’t feel cruel. Secure relationships don’t feel as if everything could implode if you dared to draw a boundary.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“Everything sad is going to come untrue and it will somehow be greater for having once been broken and lost.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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