True religion is all hands on deck and all heads out of the sand. … You don’t live this kind of life accidentally. You make up your mind who you want to be and daily die to the rest. You surrender yourself to living in the tension where you’ll always be stretched and often broken. Religion pure and undefiled is grit without the grime. You accept that far easier ways to live exist, but you were born for nothing less.
— Beth Moore, from James Week 3: Pure Religion (via natalie-lloyd)



