Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

There is no rank in sacrifice.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

God loves each of us equally.

If you really see through the eyes of how God sees people, He loves them, but what did He do? He spoke the truth. And the truth will set you free, and you shall be free indeed.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.