“As long as we are caving in to the vicious cycle of always trying harder in hopes that one day we won’t feel like such an outsider, we are not being obedient to the scriptural principle of living at peace wit ourselves. Instead, we’re living in turmoil, and that’s not the life Jesus invites us to live. We are invited to live at peace.At peace with our neighbors.At peace with our enemies.At peace with God. At peace with ourselves. And that critical last part means we must be affirming–and not just to others who are different. We need to affirm that place inside us that desperately wants to hear that we are good, that we are beautiful, and that the ways in which we are different are gifts to be celebrated.”

− Benjamin L. Corey −