Top 180 Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “When they speak to you from their fear – speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

152. “Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They’re sacred.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

153. “That’s the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don’t.”

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154. “We have given up looking for a solution and now we will settle for an explanation. The.”

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155. “Because it will be beautiful. That is the truest answer to the question I’ve been asked for so many years.”

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156. “There is no substitute on God’s Green Earth for girlfriends.”

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157. “It strikes me that it’s always religious people who are most surprised by grace.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

158. “Having something to say and no one to hear it is so lonely.”

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159. “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

160. “I must smile as we go down so everyone can drown peacefully.”

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161. “What can I, as a neighbor, do to help level the playing field?”

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162. “I consider the possibility that I’ve been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else’s idea of what those words mean.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

163. “Maybe instead of slamming the door on pain, I need to throw open the door wide and say, Come in. Sitd down with me. And don’t leave until you have taught me what I need to know.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

164. “Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life’s path to the bitter end?”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

165. “I don’t think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”

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166. “Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.”

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167. “You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.”

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168. “Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

169. “Are we ever ready for the terrifying gifts life offers us?”

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170. “All of my wisdom, all of my love, originated in the messiest parts of my life.”

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171. “I only remember waking up late the next morning and finding myself in bed with this boy who feels both completely out of my league and just like home. I.”

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172. “Some reunions just require a long, kind patience.”

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173. “I understand now that I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world.”

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174. “Grieving with another person is one of the holiest places to be.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

175. “A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.”

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176. “I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

177. “The way this life is designed; the only things you need are the very things that can never been taken from you.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

178. “Also, 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.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

179. “If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

180. “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.”

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181. “Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love. There on the bed, in her pigtails and pain, my daughter was me – the little girl I once was, the woman I am now, still struggling to answer the questions: How can I be expansive and free and still be loved? Am I going to be a lady or am I going to be fully human? Do I trust the unfolding and continue to grow, or do I shut all of this down so I fit?”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

182. “A woman doesn’t need to be told, yet again, that she’s bad. She needs to be told that she’s good.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

183. “You are my beloved! I made you and everything you have ever been or are or will become is already approved. Nothing you can ever do will make me love you more, and nothing you can ever do will make me love you less. That is finished. So stop hiding, stop waiting, and come now! Just get up and dance with me!”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

184. “Friend, I am sober today. Thank God Almighty, I’m sober today. I’m here, friend. Yesterday my son turned ten, which means that I haven’t had a drink for ten years and eight months. Lots of beautiful and horrible things have happened to me during the past ten years and eight months, and I have handled my business day in and day out without booze. GOD, I ROCK.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

185. “I’d like to be kind, and at the very least not add to people’s pain.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

186. “To be humble is to be grounded in knowing who you are. It implies the responsibility to become what you were meant to become – to grow, to reach, to fully bloom as high and strong and grand as you were created to. It is not honorable for a tree to wilt and shrink and disappear. It’s not honorable for a woman to, either.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

187. “If you keep walking – I’m here to stand beside you. If you turn around and run, I’ll follow and we’ll never look back. Whatever you do right now, Sister, you’re fine. I’m here.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

188. “I was filled with electric thunder, simmering water, fiery red and gold, but all I had to do was smile and nod and the world would take me for easy breezy blue. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn’t the only one using her skin to contain herself. Maybe we are all fire wrapped in skin, trying to look cool.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

189. “I guess women have to almost die before we give ourselves permission to live how we want.”

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190. “Depression takes all my vibrant colors and bashes them together until I am gray, gray, gray.”

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191. “The girls are silent at first. Then each girl diverts her eyes from the television screen and scans the faces of the other girls. Each looks to a friend’s face to discover if she herself is hungry. Some kind of telepathy is happening among them. They are polling. They are researching. They are gathering consensus, permission, or denial.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

192. “His body fills my arms and I think, Oh. So this is what my arms are for.”

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193. “Do I truly want any of this, or is this what I was conditioned to want? Which of my beliefs are of my own creation and which were programmed into me?”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

194. “Chase’s laughter sounds like a waterfall of crystal bubbles. His laugh is like music class when I dragged the felt-tipped xylophone mallet gently from the long, deep bar all the way to the tiny, tinkly one to hear every note in rippled succession.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

195. “I am an artist and my medium is me.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

196. “The universe had presented me with some very obvious rules for femaleness: Be small and quiet and wispy and stoic and light and smooth and don’t fart or sweat or bleed or bloat or tire or hunger or yearn. But the universe had also already issued me this lumpy, loud, smelly, hungry, longing body – making it impossible to follow the rules.”

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197. “One night I read this in a book about two lovers: ‘They could have a whole conversation with just one glance between them,’ and it makes my stomach lurch with longing.”

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198. “Who was I before I started becoming other things?”

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