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“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“The church is a signpost of God’s coming kingdom (Eph. 3:10), a preview to the watching world of what the reign of God in Christ is to look like, a colony of the kingdom coming.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“A prosperity gospel applied to a nation is no more biblical than a prosperity gospel applied to a person.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“The kingdom of God ought to reshape our vision of what matters and who matters,”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“The future of Christian social witness cannot assume the gospel, but must articulate it explicitly and coherently.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“The wilderness where faith can thrive is the very desert where it can dry up and die if we are not watchful.”
― Jeff Manion, The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions

“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

“Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught.

Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

“If God’s purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

“Of course the introduction of conscription at this stage did not give us an army. It only applied to the men of twenty years of age; they had still to be trained; and after they had been trained they had still to be armed.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948