Carry On, Warrior Quotes

“Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and every child has a bright shiny present with her name on it, waiting there underneath the tree. God wrapped it up, and he’ll let us know when it’s time to unwrap it.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Teamwork. Love takes teamwork, I think.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“The one closest to the departed has to be the first one to step from despair to hope. Nobody else is allowed to jump ahead and shove open the door. That's the rule.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“There are two different types of time. Chronos time is what we live in. It’s regular time. It’s one minute at a time, staring down the clock until bedtime time. It’s ten excruciating minutes in the Target line time, four screaming minutes in time-out time, two hours until Daddy gets home time. Chronos is the hard, slow-passing time we parents often live in. Then there’s Kairos time. Kairos is God’s time. It’s time outside of time. It’s metaphysical time. Kairos is those magical moments in which time stands still. I have a few of those moments each day, and I cherish them.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I’m trying.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“What can I, as a neighbor, do to help level the playing field?”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Because it will be beautiful. That is the truest answer to the question I’ve been asked for so many years.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in America's schools. I'm baffled by their shock, and I'm concerned about what's not being addressed in their proposed solutions.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Sometimes you have to leave to discover that you left everything you needed back home.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I am a child of God, and so is everyone else. We are all on the same side. And so in each new person, I see an invitation to know a new side of God. There are as many sides of him as there are people walking the earth. I think that’s why he keeps making people. He’s not done telling us about himself yet.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“crap. I do not know why this is my solution, but when I arrive”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and every child has a bright shiny present with her name on it, waiting there underneath the tree.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Fancy language tends to make" in "people feel more in and" out "people feel more out, and I don't think that's how words are best used. Words are best used to describe specific feelings, ideas, and hearts as clearly as possible - to make the speaker and the listener, or the writer and the reader, feel less alone and more hopeful.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“them to embrace being human instead”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“So as I’m walking up and down the grocery aisles, I notice this distinct, mildewy, putrid odor following me. And I keep looking around for the responsible party, until I discover that she is me. I stink. When I get home, Craig rolls out of bed to help me with the groceries and I say “Honey, smell me. I stink.” And he sniffs my shirt and says without surprise, “Yes, you do.” And I say “Well, what IS that? It’s disgusting.” And he says the following:
“It’s mildew. All our clothes smell like that. We always stink.” I’ll just give you a few seconds to digest that information. I know I needed a little time. “WHAT? WELL WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME, HUSBAND?” “I was scared to tell you. You get sensitive about…. housekeeping stuff.” “Oh. So let me clarify here. You’d rather reek all day at work and allow Chase to be THE STINKY KID IN CLASS than risk me getting mad?
“Yes. Yes, I would. Definitely.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

“A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“There is no substitute on God’s Green Earth for girlfriends.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“was”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever. Bulimia”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“It has been said that the opposite of Love is Hate, or perhaps apathy. Yet, I'm fairly certain that the opposite of Love is Fear. I think the root of all evil is fear.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“My destiny is to remind you to look up from the castles you’re building in the sand long enough to notice the cathedrals that God’s building all around you—without you, without your sweat, without your tears, without your consent.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“as if we were going through life with refrigerators strapped to our backs. It was hard to breathe, hard to feel anything but weight and self-pity and anger.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Be confident because you are a child of God. Be humble because everyone else is too.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“To My Friend, on Her First Sober Morning, I have been where you are. I’ve lived through this day. This day when you wake up terrified. When you open your eyes and it hits you: the jig is up. You lie paralyzed in bed and shake from the horrifying realization that life as you know it is over. Then you think that’s probably okay, since life as you know it totally blows. Even so, you can’t get out of bed because the thing is you don’t know how. You don’t know how to live, how to interact, how to cope, how to function without a drink or at least the hope of a future drink. You never learned. You dropped out before all the lessons. So who will teach you how to live?”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed