50 quotes found
“Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.”
“Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.”
“The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.”
“It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.”
“This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.”
“Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?”
“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good in our eyes, but...”
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.”
“In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all i...”
“Maybe its not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how...”
“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.”
“I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.”
“I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women aro...”
“I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.”
“The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.”
“God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard d...”
“I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.”
“My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but Im not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to ...”
“There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own minds: Fear ...”
“I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am ...”
