292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

It strikes me that it’s always religious people who are most surprised by grace.

When they speak to you from their fear – speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually.

A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.

The music is a safe place to practice being human. In the span of one song I can feel it all, let it all come – joy and hope and terror and rage and love – and then let it pass. The song always ends. I survive every time. This is how I know I’m getting better: I become able to survive the beauty of music. I have accepted another one of life’s dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel.

I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, ‘For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.’ I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and every child has a bright shiny present with her name on it, waiting there underneath the tree. God wrapped it up, and he’ll let us know when it’s time to unwrap it.

A woman doesn’t need to be told, yet again, that she’s bad. She needs to be told that she’s good.

The original Hebrew word for woman, a word that is used twice to refer to the first woman, three times to refer to strong military forces, and sixteen times to refer to God, is this: Ezer... I learn this: “The word Ezer has two roots: strong and benevolent. The best translation of Ezer is: Warrior.” God created woman as a Warrior.

Please, no. Let’s stay here with our precious cups and drink safely alone. Everything is perfect. Why must you always ruin drinking by adding scary people and things?