Suz

“And the more they asked, the more they wondered. And the more they wondered, the more they hoped. And the more they hoped, the more the clouds of sorrow lifted, drifted, and burned away in the heat of a brightening sky.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“And when each of us looks back at all the turns and folds God has allowed in our lives, I don't think it looks like a series of folded-over mistakes and do-overs that have shaped our lives. Instead, I think we'll conclude in the end that maybe we're all a little like human origami and the more creases we have, the better.”
― Bob Goff

“… it's typically easier for a gay person who grows up outside the Church to know God's love than for a gay person who had a Catholic upbringing.
The children of the Church, who should be the most confident in God's love, the ones who know best what God is like, are instead
the ones who grow up uncertain of God's love and afraid that there's no place for them in the Church...
Even (especially?) gay people who have always tried to do right and be good Christian kids often wake up one day in their twenties or thirties and realize that they have never really believed that
God cherished them. They have always felt, on some level, that God was disgusted by them and did not delight in them the way he delighted in people with more conventional desires.”
― Eve Tushnet, Tenderness: A Gay Christian's Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God's Extravagant Love

“Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World