A Quote by Shauna Niequist

There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

Shauna Niequist

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Epictetus

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Barbara Kingsolver

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Ellen Goodman

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Rosemarie DeWitt

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Jenny Lawson

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O. Henry

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Donald Miller

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