Shannon

“Charles Spurgeon is often attributed with saying, “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.”
― Melissa Dougherty, Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World

“So, God spare us a life of fairness! To live in a world with grace is better by far than to live in a world of absolute fairness. A fair world may make life nice for us, but only as nice as we are. We may get what we deserve, but I wonder how much that is and whether or not we would really be satisfied. A world with grace will give us more than we deserve. It will give us life, even in our suffering.”
― Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

“There’s a kind of unspoken conspiracy to ignore how difficult life is, or to reframe it as something romantic—a heroic challenge we overcome on our way to the good life.”
― Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

“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.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are