Tori Holbert

You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.

Eye contact: how souls catch fire.

I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world.

God is good and necessarily so. God’s essence does not conform to some external standard of goodness. God is essentially goodness itself…. Importantly, God possesses goodness not as a quality but of his very nature, ‘not a habit added to his essence, but his essence itself,’ as Charnock attests; ‘he is not first God, and then afterwards good; but he is good as he is God, his essence, being one and the same, is formally and equally God and good

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you’re going to respond to life.

Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.