“Vulnerability feels risky because it involves embracing weakness and imperfection. Image-keeping feels far less risky because we believe it protects our sensitive areas from the judgment of others. For some reason, we believe impressing other women will lead to connection… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“Within the church, good questions and good listening kill the assumptions we make about others that often exacerbate divisions and gaps between us. How… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability feels risky because it involves embracing weakness and imperfection. Image-keeping feels far less risky because we believe it protects our sensitive areas from… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“we must never move our gaze of hope and longing away from fellowship with God. He is guaranteed—a sure and steady anchor for our… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“God allowed the difficulty of church planting to sift me, to bring the issues of my heart to the surface. I realized that if… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“When we hold an ideal of friendship in our minds, believing it’s attainable, we hold a standard above the heads of real women God… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“Because where we name common need, we can also name common grace in Christ and grasp him together.” — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“Friendship is hard to come by because a lot of people don’t voluntarily choose to enter into other people’s worlds or into their pain.… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“God was giving me a friendship do-over, and I determined to learn from my false starts, mistakes, and all those seedling friendships I’d never… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
