Erin Henry

“The church is the only society that exists primarily for those who are not its members. We were part of something much greater than ourselves, and we wouldn’t and couldn’t leave anyone behind. The problems here were our problems, and we would not look away. The slaves sang it this way: “I shall not be moved. Just like a tree, planted by the water, I shall not be moved.”
― Michael B. Curry, Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

“At this point, not acting on what we know is willful complicity. With every day we allow women to be shot and murdered by an intimate partner, we are sending a clear message to women that we do not care enough to do anything, that we don’t care enough about their pain and their trauma to save women like them. We are saying, “We care more about the right to access a firearm than your right to your life and your safety.” We are saying, “We don’t think domestic and intimate-partner violence are violent enough to warrant infringing on the rights of others.” We are saying these things; we just aren’t using words.”
― Taylor S. Schumann, When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence

“if you could accept that perfection is impossible what would you stop obsessing over”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“There will always be bombs, and we will never be able to save everyone we care about. To know that and to try anyway is to be fully alive. The closest thing to shelter we can offer one another is love, as deep and wide and in as many forms as we can give”
― Mary Laura Philpott, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives