““I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. How much greater? About the size of a mustard seed. Repentance requires that we draw near to Jesus, no matter what. And sometimes we all have to crawl there on our hands and knees. Repentance is an intimate affair. And for many of us, intimacy with anything is a terrifying prospect.””
![“[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It also reminded me that being wrong and responding to correction with resilience was a higher virtue than covering up your mistakes so your students and the watching world assumed…” quote by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/029/rosaria-champagne-butterfield_failure_w-hen-you-make-your-mistakes-in-public-y_835881.jpg)
