Meredith Melrose

“People don't grow where they're planted; they grow where they're loved. Knowing things about the Bible is terrific. But I'd trade in a dozen Bible studies for a bucket full of love and acceptance--and truth be told, so would everyone around us.”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

“He had no heart. And, you know, a man who gives up his heart is little better than a tin can...and all the Baum's Castorine in the world couldn't make him better. That's why he was so determined to find one. Sometimes, when the tin woodman leaves home, when he goes on the road, leaving his family to sell his chopped wood, he feels so hollow he bangs on his chest, just to hear the echo inside. That's what it's like to be a man of tin. It's very lonely.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“So rather than spending time wondering why I don’t hear audible voices, I just try to listen harder with my heart, and I’ve realized a couple of things that seem kind of obvious now. God doesn’t talk to me in an audible voice because God isn’t a human being; He’s God. That makes sense to me, because human beings are limited and God isn’t limited at all. He can communicate to us in any way He wants to anytime He wants to. Through flowers, other people, an uncomfortable sense, a feeling of joy, goose bumps, a newfound talent, or an appreciation we acquire over time. It doesn’t need to be a big mystical thing like my surfer buddies made it out to be.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Just because you can see a rainbow doesn’t mean you know how to get to the other side.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy