Glennon Doyle Melton

“Sister, who needs an umbrella when you are the whole sky?” All”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“I am not what just happened to me, but I might be what I do next.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Grace makes no disclaimer. It's true for all or none.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can’t offer it to others unless we put our masks on first.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“the word disaster comes from astro: stars, and dis: without. This will only be a disaster if I lose all awareness of…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“He is human. I hadn't wanted him to be human. I had wanted him to be perfect and golden - steady and…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Young people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Sometimes you have to leave to discover that you left everything you needed back home.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I 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…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they're missing the mark.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we've got to take the time to receive it and eat it.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Integrity means there is not a real-life you and an internet you. The two are one and the same. If you're not…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“She pauses and then says: “Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren't. Our lives are. Our spirituality…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If grace isn't shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it's not Grace.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. It's simply something to do.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's neutral - it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.

— Glennon Doyle Melton