"A person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.” Rob Bell

"it’s true that religion can lead people to be incredibly closed-minded, but… to believe that this is all there is and we are simply collections of neutrons and atoms – that’s being closed to anything beyond that particular size and scope of reality.” Rob Bell

"there is no more hateful a person than a Christian who thinks you've got your theology wrong." Sarah Bessey

"Both sides are probably wrong and right in some ways. I'm probably wrong, you're probably wrong, and the opposite is true, because we still see through a glass, darkly." Sarah Bessey

"I don't think God is glorified by tightly crafted arguments wielded as weaponry." Sarah Bessey

"Since when did the "stepping up" of a real man require the bowing down or lessening of the woman he loves?" Sarah Bessey

"Once you taste Love, you are ruined for the empty shells of religious performance and conditions" Sarah Bessey

"if we can't preach it in every context, for every person, it's not really for everyone, and so then we should probably ask whether or not what we are preaching is actually the gospel." Sarah Bessey

"I saw God... He just didn't look the same anymore." Sarah Bessey

"These are the small, small arguments about a small, small god." Sarah Bessey

"If it was in my nature to be specific I wouldn’t be able to look in two directions at all times." Chris Colfer

"I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip." Rachel Held Evans

"the best way to reclaim the gospel in times of change is not to cling more tightly to our convictions but to hold them with an open hand." Rachel Held Evans

"I evolved, not into a better creature than those around me, but into a better, more adapted, me" Rachel Held Evans

"If only born-again Christians go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony at the hands of an angry God." Rachel Held Evans

"Many of us who consider ourselves more progressive can be tolerant of everyone except the intolerant" Rachel Held Evans

"Taking on the yoke of Jesus is not about signing a doctrinal statement or making an intellectual commitment to a set of propositions. It isn't about being right or getting our facts straight. It is about loving God and loving other people. the yoke is hard because the teachings of Jesus are radical: enemy love, unconditional forgiveness, extreme generosity. The yoke is easy because it is accessible to all" Rachel Held Evans

"No one ever said the fruit of the Spirit is relevance or impact or even revival." Rachel Held Evans

"Peter had a vision in which God told him not to let rules-- even biblical ones-- keep him from loving his neighbour." Rachel Held Evans

"The annoying thing about being human is that to be fully engaged with the world, we must be vulnerable." Rachel Held Evans

"There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until I die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me." Elizabeth Gilbert

"you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new." Elizabeth Gilbert

"I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding." Elizabeth Gilbert

"I'm not interested in the insurance industry. I'm tired of being a skeptic. I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. I couldn't care less about the evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside of me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water." Elizabeth Gilbert

"God loves to feel things through our hands." Elizabeth Gilbert

"God dwells within you, as you." Elizabeth Gilbert

"Daring humility is honest enough to admit that we see things in a mirror dimly, and bold enough to live a life of deep conviction anyway.” Shane Hipps

"Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness." David Levithan

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house." David Levithan

"The phrase rush to judgement is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don't have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is so easy to reach for." David Levithan

"Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes... You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half." David Levithan

"In order to be a good father you have to be a good mother." David Levithan

"When I'm by myself, magic is something personal. My burden, my secret. But at Watford, magic is just the air that we breathe. It's what makes me a part of something bigger, not the thing that sets me apart." Rainbow Rowell

"She's not exactly friendly, but I think she genuinely cares, and she seems more human sometimes..." Rainbow Rowell

"What if God, if he (she) was actually like her; rather casual, with a fondness for cannabis (which he, after all, would have created in the first place) and a benign, rather folksy manner? What if God actually hated Gregorian chants and the Anglican liturgy, strongly disliked the smell of incense the Catholics kept wafting in his direction, and had a strong sympathy for ageing hippies who taught English as a foreign language? What if God actually knew the way to the railway station but understood that others needed to be told as well?" Alexander McCall Smith

"You love your country because it's your country, because it's familiar and it's full of things you've always known." Alexander McCall Smith

"if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste." Alexander McCall Smith

"Failure often had a certain style that success simply did not have." Alexander McCall Smith