Small Things with Great Love Quotes

“Frederick Buechner says it most eloquently: "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

“Henri Nouwen explains, "Jesus' life is marked by an always deeper choice of what is small, humble, poor, rejected, and despised. The poor are the preferred dwelling place of God. Thus they have become the way to meet God.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

“Holy friendship with the stranger can be a little bit contagious. Become a carrier.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

“Jesus had studied the speech and gestures and expressions of his Father. He had watched him move toward the hungry, the captive, the naked, the homeless. He had paid attention when his Father reached out toward the poor, the prisoner and the brokenhearted. Because the heart of his Father clearly dwelled among these, Jesus moved toward them. His eyes rested upon them. His feet crossed roads to be with them. His hands touched and healed and fed them. Jesus' body literally tracked, followed and embraced the ones who dwelled in the center of his Father's heart.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

“And because most of us know what it means to follow someone online, it's understandable how we might accidentally roll that definition over to our spiritual lives. As followers of Jesus, we catch some of the random thoughts and links to the Hebrew Scriptures that he tosses out. We learn what makes him tick. We can peek to find out where he grew up. If we're cyberstalkers, we'll even scroll through his photos and watch his videos.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

“Main describes an active awareness by citing the old Haitian proverb, "We see from where we stand." Main explains that when we change the places we stand, "our perceptions of the world will be changed and challenged.”
― Margot Starbuck, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor