Angela Banz

“The experience of loss does not have to be the defining moment in our lives. Instead the defining moment can be our response to the loss. It is not what happens to us that matters so much as what happens in us.”
― Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

“But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven’s workshop, heaven’s womb.”
― Gerald Lawson Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

“It is therefore not true that we become less through loss—unless we allow the loss to make us less, grinding our soul down until there is nothing left but an external self entirely under the control of circumstances. Loss can also make us more. In the darkness we can still find the light. In death we can also find life. It depends on the choices we make.”
― Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

“our infatuation with the spectacular can blind us to the ways in which God moves in and through the ordinary and the common.”
― Mike Erre, Astonished: Recapturing the Wonder, Awe, and Mystery of Life with God