If you ask a woman who she is, she’ll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn’t the whole story.
GLENNON DOYLEI don’t think that I’m broken at all. I no longer think that I’m a mess. I just think I’m a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
More Glennon Doyle Quotes
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It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.
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You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.
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Rock bottom is a crisis. And everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what ‘crisis’ means literally is ‘to sift’ – like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there’s treasure left over. That’s what crisis does.
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Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
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The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.
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When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they’re missing the mark.
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I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
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Love is kind, right? It’s not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
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I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That’s all. And for me, it’s fine that my house’s interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
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If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.
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Over time, I have come to believe that ‘brave’ does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean ‘being afraid and doing it anyway.’ Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.
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Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.
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The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.
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I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of us.
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The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
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