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Kate Bowler QUOTES

161 " I thought I was trying to understand how millions of North Americans had started asking God for more. How they seemed to want permission to experience the luxuries of life as a reward for good behavior. "

― Kate Bowler , Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

162 " blessed are we who stop—okay, maybe not stop entirely, who are we kidding—but who slow down. We who discover rest and new life and renewal when we step off the treadmill (or at least turn it down). "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

163 " When life is hanging upside down, we must try to send all available energy to the roots. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

164 " We become new people, slowly. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

165 " All of our masterpieces, ridiculous. All of our striving, unnecessary. All of our work, unfinished, unfinishable. We do too much, never enough, and are done before we’ve even started. "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

166 " What if rich did not have to mean wealthy, and whole did not have to mean healed? What if being people of "the gospel" meant that we are simply people with good news? God is here. We are loved. It is enough. "

― Kate Bowler , Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

167 " A month later Dr. Cartwright sends me a note of congratulations. He has been able to make an arrangement with Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, for access to the immunotherapy drug here at Duke, and the news fills me with a bright hope. No more 3:45 a.m. wakeups. No more hours on the phone with airline companies, trying to fix a haywire flight--- or relying on donations to afford the flights in the first place. A painful chapter of my life will finally close. "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

168 " I remember clearly in the hospital how I felt this strange closeness with God, how I did not feel like dry grass. I was becoming less and less, but I becoming less and less, but I was not reduced to nothing
God's love was everywhere, sticking to everything. Love was in my husband's hand on my back, steadying me, a lightness under my feet, all over Zach's velvety wars. I flushed with embarrassment when I described this feeling to my friends, stumbling as I tried to explain its sudden appearance (Wasn't it there before?), that love itself was suddenly more real to me than my own thoughts. Despair was never far away, but somehow the seams of the universe had come undone, and all the splendid, ragged edges were showing.
And they brought me close than I've e ed been to the truth of this experiment— living— and how the horror and the beauty of it feels almost blinding. "

― Kate Bowler

169 " The Law of the Tithe supernaturally multiplies an offering of 10 percent gross income given to the church, often with a guaranteed tenfold or hundredfold return. The number of these spiritual laws depends on who is preaching. There are the Law of First Fruits and the Law of Seed Faith and an entire Laws of Life book series by the televangelist Mike Murdock, advertised as people’s “favorite book outside the Bible. "

― Kate Bowler , Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

170 " society deemed it a form of torture to set men to work that had no meaning and allowed no human connection. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

171 " You have another young patient on immunotherapy? Here at Duke?" I repeat slowly, as Dr. Cartwright chats amicably about how he managed to secure the same drug for him too. Months ago. Months I have spent traveling to Atlanta, whittling down my family's savings and relying on the charity of others. Months of arguing with insurance companies---because treatment was administered out of state---contesting payments and fielding phone calls with bill collectors over clerical errors. I have been hooked to a bag of chemotherapy fluid that could have been administered by pills? I have been getting on a plane when I could have been walking down the hallway in my own institution? "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

172 " We are grass, murmur the scriptures. Our crowns are just flowers. We are here and then gone in a burst of wind. But I want things. I want more stories. I want life itself. But am I unfaithful in clinging so tightly to life? "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

173 " Spiritual hunger, like other forms of desire, is fleeting. Hello! And goodbye! Now it’s gone again. If we want our spiritual appetite to stick around, that will require a bit of attention. Our spiritual selves need encouragement. We need community. We need a hot minute alone. And we need a regula. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

174 " Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. But one thing is most admirable…which is, that this communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.” —Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

175 " they have some very unchristian feelings about people who sit in their pew or take their treadmill at the gym. (Okay, that is everyone.) "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

176 " comparing a “fixed” versus “growth” mindset. A fixed mindset assumes that whatever we are—a certain composite of personality, intelligence, abilities—is a given. Every new challenge becomes a moment where you simply prove yourself again and again as being that particular person (dumb, smart, winning, losing, etc.). A growth mindset, conversely, imagines that we are not static creatures. We can change, and we do. We flex and grow, fall back, or bounce forward. But we are not simply the aggregate of whatever we have been. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

177 " Not every change is going to be a transformation. "

― Kate Bowler , Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

178 " But the truth is somewhere inside of me: there is no formula. We live and we are loved and we are gone. "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

179 " This will be a hard journey," he says. "Is there anything you can set down? "

― Kate Bowler , No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear