“maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love”

“I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings”

“in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then”

“a crown, if it hurts us is not worth wearing”

“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”

“In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about 'stillness,' which in his writings has been summarized as 'a deliberate denial of the gift of words for the sake of achieving inner silence, in the midst of which a person can hear the presence of God. It is standing unceasingly, silent, and prayerfully before God.”

“Spiritual awakening doesn’t require a new experience; it’s simply seeing clearly what‘s already happening.”