Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Just do the next right thing, one thing at a time.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.

— 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

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties,…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms,…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I've seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I've also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. Sometimes brave means letting…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

When we shrug and say we don't care, it's usually a lie. Every girl cares. We've just been taught not to expose…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad youve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“I look away, farther down the hall, and I see Tish in line with her Sunday school class. Tish sees me and…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“We can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— Glennon Doyle Melton

My greatest fear is that I'll fail my kids.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Life is a quest to fin an unfindable thing. We are put here needing something that doesnt exist here.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

— 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

“I am a child of God, and so is everyone else. We are all on the same side. And so in each…

— Glennon Doyle Melton