Love Well Quotes

“To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“We tend to think this world is about us. But our story, in the expanse of history, is nothing but a vignette, a small picture with blurred edges, a brief journal entry. Life is really about another story. When we can begin to see the commonality in our species, when we acknowledge that we are all broken yet redeemed for a higher purpose, when we get that, we forgive. As my father has reminded me often, the ground is level at the foot of the cross.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“A relationship is an experience built on moments of relating. The greater the accumulation and flavor of these moments, the deeper the relationship. The more honest and genuine those moments, the healthier the relationship.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“If you have not yet loved or suffered enough to clear out your narcissism, then you will not naturally promote other people’s uniqueness and value. If you wonder why you have trouble connecting with others, this is probably why.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am. By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out. I leave in God’s hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.”29 This is the great irony. It is the forgiving people who have the real authority and confidence. Unforgiveness offers only a pseudo feeling of power. We say, “I hold something over you because of what you did to me.” All the while, that person, alive or dead, holds the power because we are the ones who are locked up! Life is sucked from you while you stare at the scales, judging whose sin is weightier than your own: “Whenever someone wrongs you, you caricature them in your heart, making huge their worst feature. Deep in every human soul is a deep desire to justify yourself. We’re afraid that we’re not okay, that we’re not desirable. That fear is behind how you caricature the person who wrongs you. You need to feel noble, you need to feel superior, you need to feel better.”30 Demeaning the personhood of another fictitiously elevates us, and judging another leaves us full of arrogance, entitlement, and unforgiveness. “Playing God” in judging someone’s motives only infuses us with an increasingly cancerous preoccupation with self that sends us plummeting into the abyss of perceived superiority or the fears of possible inferiority. We chain ourselves to the dock, watching the life of adventure sail on without us. It is self-imposed imprisonment. We think there is so much power in unforgiveness, when the reality is we live as the forlorn castaway, powerless and pitiful.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“We have twin boys. They have shared a room, often been mistaken for each other, have had the same mentors and coaches, and by and large have had the same environment that has shaped their lives. And yet in the midst of all this sameness, the central features of their personalities are nothing alike. Jordan we call, “Fire. Aim. Reconsider.” Tyler we call, “Ready. Ready. Ready. Aim. Consider firing.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“My friend Mike is a captain in the Marine Corps. He says that doctrine, education, and training mean nothing without “operational experience.” A significant part of operational experience is pattern recognition. This is the ability to recognize what has happened in the past while at the same time anticipating what’s ahead. Mike is not saying that one becomes a clairvoyant armed with precision accuracy regarding the future, but rather that with pattern recognition one gains greater understanding of the present.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“Life leaks out of us as we find ourselves treated as objects, roles, images, economic potential, commodities, consumers.3 Eugene Peterson”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“A woman. As a baby she wants to be held. As a toddler she wants to be seen. As a child she wants to be found. As a teen she wants to be understood. A woman wants to be loved.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

“Relationships are inconvenient. So is brushing your teeth. Don’t take time for it, and eventually you will see the results.”
― Jamie George, Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck