I have come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it and I lean into it to find new information — and the things it has to teach me.

- Tracee Ellis Ross

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful...

- Flannery O’Connor

"Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten. ” -Count Zinzendorf

Because Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.

- Nadia Bolz-Weber

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear ... Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind. - Count Zinzendorf

God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.

- Mother Teresa

"Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference" - Frederick Douglas

"We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans." Voddie Baucham

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

- Madeleine L'Engle

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. - Mr. Rogers

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

- Anne Lamott

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

- John Green