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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, ...more

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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty ...more

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for ...more

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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's c...more

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Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and ...more

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[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

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Most of us don’t notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights...more

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He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor...more

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I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellu...more

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Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your ow...more