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Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.
- Sheila Walsh
We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.
- Sheila Walsh
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
- Brene Brown
People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?
- Beth Moore
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.
- Beth Moore
He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.
- Ayn Rand
Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
- Barbara Kingsolver
my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.
- Barbara Kingsolver
All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them—when they feel understood by you—that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open. But most people are too vulnerable emotionally to listen deeply—to suspend their agenda long enough to focus on understanding before they communicate their own ideas.
- Stephen Covey