“...there can never be intimacy if [someone] is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy.”
“Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far”
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
“Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.”
“Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.”
“I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.”