Louise

“The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“Alone in a big house full of books. I suppose that fixed a literary bent. I drew a lot, but soon began to write more.”7 For Lewis, reading and writing flourished simultaneously. He began to call the quiet attic his “study,” a space lined with drawings and magazine cutouts, furnished with “Jack’s desk,” and stocked with “pen and inkpot and writing books and paintbox.”8 There young Jack began his writing life.”
― Corey Latta, C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing

“We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?”
― Meghan Markle

“It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers