Austin, Texas, blogger, author and speaker, Jen Hatmaker’s newest book, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards, is a refreshing and much needed pep talk for ladies who love Jesus, especially over-extended moms of littles. I’m so honored to be on the launch team and gearing up for its official release on Tuesday, August 18.

If you don’t yet have your hands on this gem, you can pre-order online or buy it now at your local Barnes & Noble (yes, they already have it in stores!).  Until then, here’s a sneak peek with my five favorite quotes from the book.

For the Love quotes

On confidence and our calling

I don’t like when people minimize their gifts. There is a difference between humility and insecurity, and self-effacement does no one any favors. We teach our watching children to doubt and excuse and diminish themselves. Do we want our kids to reflect on their mothers and have absolutely no idea what we loved? What we were good at? What got our pulses racing and our minds spinning? Don’t we want them to see us doing what we do best?

On comparison and social media

The trouble is, we have up-close access to women who excel in each individual sphere. With social media and its carefully selected messaging, we see career women killing it, craft moms slaying it, chef moms nailing it, Christian leaders working it. … Then we combine the best of everything we see, every woman we admire in every genre, and conclude: I should be all of that.

On honesty in community

Simply speaking truth out loud is healing in and of itself. When people courageously voice a true, hard thing, they’ve already stolen some of its dark power before we offer one word to fix it.

On parenthood

Only our overly-critical, overly-involved generation could engineer such carefully curated childhood environments and still declare ourselves failures. We are loving, capable mothers reading the room all wrong.

On grace and perfectionism

We “love” people the way we “love” ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is.

Please share your favorites in the comments!

Find more For the Love quotes over at our #FridayFive linkup.

And check out an interview with cover girl Jen Hatmaker in this month’s Austin Woman magazine.