Top 33 Hannah Brencher Quotes
#1. I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together.
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#2. We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness.
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#3. The stars are reliable, unlike any other thing in this crazy world. Leaves fall off the trees. Snow melts. Rain washes away all the things we wrote on the pavement. But the stars are relentless in shining.
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#4. Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.
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#5. They weren't just people. And they weren't strangers. They were my neighbors. And I didn't know how to help them.
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#6. I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat.
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#7. He probably would have looked at me sideways and asked why I was trying to learn how to change my life by reading a book.
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#8. Don't always get so caught up in doing what you love. Instead, do what is necessary. Do what others need.
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#10. If joy could break windows and hallelujahs could break floorboards, this church would have been broken down by noon.
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#11. She didn't know if it was God. She wasn't really sure what to call it. She just knew she believe in unconditional love. And that was really all that mattered.
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#12. It's always in those moments when you've shunned God, or you've gone ahead as if you don't need Him, that you find yourself crawling back with pathetic little attempts to get His attention because suddenly you're weak and you need to convince yourself you're not alone on the bathroom floor.
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#13. ...the littlest doll is the most solid of them all. It doesn't hide inside itself.
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#14. I'm a do-something sort of person and that doesn't really mix well with the commuters of New York.
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#15. God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.
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#16. Some people are dotted lines and other people are destinations. Some people get you somewhere and some people are just a place to be, all in themselves. But you cannot force those dotted lines into destinations. It doesn't really work that way.
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#17. A lot of us might never reach the point of realizing that by standing out, by actually being the people we say we want to be, we get to set ourselves free. Not in all capacities, but definitely in some.
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#19. I think it's easy to stay angry at a world that never promises you invincibility but still manages to break your heart with the way some moments can make you feel so infinite.
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#20. Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.
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#21. I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of books.
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#22. Being seen somewhere at 2 a.m. through a "like" or retweet didn't actually fill me.
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#23. I'd sit the younger version of myself down and ask,'Yo, girl, what's the deal? Why so happy? Why must everything end so poetically?
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#24. Grace is letting something else - something so much bigger than you - carry you home. It's having and wanting nowhere else to be but in a moment that wants you and takes you just as you are.
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#25. It was about some real belief that God wasn't just going to show up on Sunday and cop out by Tuesday morning.
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#26. That's what I think about people in our lives with plane tickets - you've gotta let them go. Let them see what's out there.
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#27. Fear and failure, they go hand in hand. They're like dance partners with great rhythm.
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#28. The two had very little figured out. They were trying though. They fell in love. They looked for God. They loved constructing miracles out of the mundane. Above all things, they cheered for each other. And they made each other stronger. And that meant everything.
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#29. They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.
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#30. ...we've never really been alone. Maybe lonely, but never alone.
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#31. I always thought New York City would be romantic, like a boyfriend who would kiss my hand and throw rocks at my window to get my attention.
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#32. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.
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#33. Hope can be a mighty powerful thing when you decide to tangle it into a journey. Hope can shake things up a bit. It'll convince you that even if you don't know what direction you're headed in, something will meet you at the end.
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