Frances Benson-Cooper

“Our secularized postmodern culture has built the concepts of self-creation and self-healing into a house and wants you to take up residence in it. But because the house lacks a foundation, it will fall. It’s just a matter of time.”
― Christopher Cook, Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out

“We have been told the lie ever since we can remember: human beings are basically nice and good. Everyone is born equal and innocent and self-sufficient. The world is a pleasant, harmless place. We are born free. If we are in chains now, it is someone’s fault, and we can correct it with just a little more intelligence or effort or time.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The only place where we can exercise our freedom of choice is in the present.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice