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“aren’t we lucky there are such a wide variety of dreams to choose from?”

I knewwwww it! 🌸

“You can dare to be a sinner.”

“Nothing can be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin.”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” — sheeesh!!! Yes!!

“I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation.”

“Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?”

“‘Seek God, not happiness’— this is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness: that is its promise.”

“Let nothing be done by force; let everything be done in freedom and love.”

“We must know the Scriptures first and foremost for the sake of our salvation.”

“But there is a such thing as rising early for the love of God.”

“For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day’s work.” — that is equal parts convicting and frustrating. How does one turn off the constant to-do list in their brain?

“We are bound together by faith, not by experience.” — Ooo this book is going to be a theological, slow burn, I can already tell! (Chapter One, complete!)

“As good as it feels to be careful, and to risk boredom and loneliness over heartache, I don’t particularly want comfortable and safe anymore.”

“I’ve never adored someone with such heated abandon…”

“…he grins over me—it brightens the Sun.”

“…God lives too close to me to say nothing.”

“The devil knows our names and calls us by our sin, but the Lord knows our sin and calls us by our names.”

“There are so many of us that have given our lives to Jesus Christ only to settle into a religious lifestyle rather than a loving relationship.”

“He was warmth and wit and kindness, a certainty and a surprise.”

“She treasured the opens, vulnerability, and wild possibility her life held now…”