"When Janusz Korczak was notified by the Nazis that his orphanage would be moved to the Warsaw Ghetto, he accompanied the children. He was given opportunities to leave but he refused them all. He wanted the children's lives to feel as normal as they possibly could in the Warsaw Ghetto (where Jewish people were sad, starving, and dying)... When the Nazis came to take all [200] children to an extermination camp, Korczak was offered a chance to leave, but he would not send those children alone to die... Korczak holding the hands of the youngest children, mere toddlers boarded the train with them to die. People stood there and watched. In the midst of death and destruction... these children were experiencing firsthand, there was... self-sacrifice. This is how God relates to us. This is what Jesus Christ has done for us. The Lord holds our small hands and accompanies us out into the death and destruction that is so often a part of our lives. Knowing this makes everything different."

"We forget that God uses the worst of us for his grace. We are wreaking havoc on the world around us and we are surprised we get to come home to the Lord. It has nothing to do with us."

"When we see our past in light of the cross, everything actually changes. In light of the cross, nothing is settled in loss... We find a small version of ourselves lurking inside. We realize we are not burdened with our own salvation. The thing that seems impossible to redeem become the redemptive parts of our lives." - Sarah Condon

"The best part of children is that they are horribly needy people." - Sarah Condon It is in them, we discover ourselves.