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There’s something about going on a trip with someone. Seeing how the love exists everywhere, that it’s something you carry wherever you go and not just a product of the world it was created in.

Sometimes necessity forces us to be the most efficient version of ourselves.

It’s disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They’re so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

In one sense, yes, it was an end. A terrible end. But maybe not the end. Maybe an end with a future.

Theo was not particularly comfortable with small talk. His own active mind and colorful thoughts were so engaging the shallow babble felt at times like an intrusion, an interruption, a subtraction.

Nothing sinks your spirit like your own cruelty.

Lark’s theory of angels was that they are us and we mostly don’t remember.

To learn to swim in the ocean of not knowing- this is my constant work.

It’s the certainty of never that hurts the most.

The world will be different a generation from now. The question is whether we will look back in gratitude at the virtuous cycles, or in horror at the vicious ones.

Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart, even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt… Maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave.

I believe that you don’t build a brand; you just do it’s true for you every day, and then one day, you realize that you have a brand. I had to be my own compass: make the right decisions and hold them to my standards.

You can’t be inspired, sitting at home alone by yourself. You have to go out into the world and see what people are doing, and that will trigger something else in you, and then you’ll do it your way.

I’ve misunderstood going slow as lacking enthusiasm and going fast as joy. I’ve confused patients as a lack of will and activity as purpose.

What we punish, God can forgive.

Our problem, following Jesus is, we are trying to be a better version of us, rather than a more accurate reflection of him.

I’m not trying to be efficient. In the way I love; I’m trying to be present. There’s a big difference between the two. One thing I’ve learned from Jesus is extra extravagant. Love is never wasted.

Loving people the way Jesus did means living a life filled with constant interruptions. Take the calls. Interrupt your days. Be excessively available, and you’ll be just like Jesus.

People who want a reason to delay often wait for plans.

His biggest priority isn’t removing failure as an option for reminding me he loves me as I try.

Simply put, if we want more faith, we need to do more stuff.

God doesn’t give us all the details, because he trusts us.

God isn’t surprised we want more confirmation. He just hopes we won’t get stuck waiting for it. Perhaps we don’t get all the answers and confirmations we asked for because God loves seeing us grow.

Loving people doesn’t mean we need to control their conduct. Loving people means caring without an agenda. As soon as we have an agenda, it’s not love anymore.

People don’t grow where they’re informed; they grow where they’re loved and accepted.

It seems that what God does most of the time when he has something to say is this… He doesn’t pass us messages, instead he passes us each other.

You don’t need to know everything when you’re with someone you trust.

When Jesus invites us on an adventure, he shapes who we become with what happens along the way.

When Jesus invites us on an adventure, he shapes who we become with what happens along the way.

When I don’t trust God’s forgiveness, it is kind of like saying I really don’t believe he’s that good.

He hopes we’ll start to see ourselves as his beloved, rather than think of all of the reasons that we aren’t.