Amanda Harris

“Maybe churches are filled with hypocrites because you are not there. Or maybe churches are filled with hypocrites because you are there in pride and in self-promotion. Here’s my challenge to you: for those with church ties, start going to church in honest vulnerability.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

“As I turn to look at him what I see on his face is empathy and maybe a tinge of regret, reflected in those mysterious green eyes flecked with a hint of grey. ‘Sometimes life’s hurdles aren’t easy to jump. It’s a case of learning how to survive the fall really.’ There’s sadness and pain in his voice. ‘Was it that bad?’ ‘Bad enough. Anyway, it’s time to head back or we’ll find ourselves walking in the pitch black.”
― Lucy Coleman, The French Adventure

“Ever since Grandma died, I’ve felt as if life is a ticking clock. Every single day that passes is a day I should be moving forward, but I feel stuck. Drained. Invisible even to myself, as if I’m some sort of automaton going through the motions instead of living in the moment.”
― Lucy Coleman, Summer in Provence