Louise

“The inherent danger of the Sculpted Self is to become so like those around you, so like your sculpting community, that you lose your own distinctiveness. A bland conformity. A squashing down of difference. A denial that can lead easily to the loss of self-definition and a harsh rejection of anyone who does not fit.”
― Joel McKerrow, Woven: A Faith for the Dissatisfied

“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

“not everyone who speaks in the spirit is a prophet, but only if he exhibits the Lord’s ways … if any prophet teaches the truth, yet does not practise what he teaches, he is a false prophet’.”
― Nick Page, A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity