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“Going at it alone is, without a doubt, one of the most common and effective strategies that Satan uses to discourage moms.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“When the worship of God turns into a “worship experience,” we have derailed as the body of Christ.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“Grayed-down discipleship is an easier sell, but it created pretend Christians, obsessing over Scriptures we like while conspicuously ignoring the rest.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“Christians need to stop living as if our purpose is to arrive safely at death.”
― Donna Pyle, Quenched: Christ's Living Water for a Thirsty Soul

“Her genius began with the recognition that such lives as hers were very eventful indeed—that every life is eventful, if only you know how to look at it. She did not think that her existence was quiet or trivial or boring; she thought it was delightful and enthralling, and she wanted us to see that our own are, too. She understood that what fills our days should fill our hearts, and what fills our hearts should fill our novels.     If”
― William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

“We are succumbing to our more primitive tendencies toward unconsciousness, going under a kind of technological anesthesia, which renders us unaware of where we actually are physically and with whom we are sharing company. Technology is dazzling us into a form of entertaining sleep, and too many of us are not yet making conscious choices about whether we agree with what is happening and in fact want to disappear from our lives. Technology”
― Nancy Colier, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

“Technology facilitates the natural human drive to flee from the moment, avoid what’s challenging, and seek pleasure at all costs, none of which create happiness, peace, or well-being in the end.”
― Nancy Colier, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

“I can’t make myself accept my circumstances, but I can be completely honest with God about how upset I am and put it back on him to change my heart. He’s God. Let him do the work in you. All you have to do is show up and talk to him. You don’t have to change your mind. You can just plug in and listen to what he has to say. I”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“want to be a “Me too” friend. I want to be a “Me too” mom and wife. A safe place where people can share their fears and struggles and find refuge and empathy, rather than pity or shame. Maybe”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“There’s commonality in the ways that we fear, and there’s commonality in the ways that we fail, and when we partner in the pain, it gives way to sharing in the joy as well. From”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“It is not always possible for me to choose love in the midst of challenging situations, but I can definitely try to soften—soften my voice, my touch, my opinion, and my timetable.”
― Rachel Macy Stafford, Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love

“When there is love to be given, I will resist the impulse to decide if I have time, because I know there is always, always time for love.”
― Rachel Macy Stafford, Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” Yes.”
― Melanie Shankle, The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life

“Bibles and prayers are great. Also great are people who have gone to school for years and years to learn how to help you work through things. The”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“I’ve been changed by a God who loved me through disappointment and continues to carry me through the unfairness of life.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“Plainness was not necessarily simplicity,” Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. “Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.” My”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

“How we need more “homemakers” so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

“We need time to be awake but not ready and available — to our boss, clients, partner, friends, and even our children. Even the busiest, most responsible, indispensable, or in-demand person can create small spaces to step off the hamster wheel of others’ needs.”
― Nancy Colier, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World