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“your greatest hurt will probably be your greatest ministry.”
― Holley Gerth, You're Loved No Matter What: Freeing Your Heart from the Need to Be Perfect

“That love—whose obedience is wide and long and high and deep enough to dissolve a mountain of rightful wrath—is the love you’ve been looking for all your life. No family love, no friend love, no mother love, no spousal love, no romantic love—nothing could possibly satisfy you like that. All those other kinds of loves will let you down; this one never will.”
― Timothy Keller, Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God

“Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They’re in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story’s not written down doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
― Jodi Picoult, Off the Page

“Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age."
"Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before