“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.”

—  Eugene H. Peterson

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

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