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“This entire planet is about wilderness, but God is about manna. The journey of life is not a matter of finding our way out of the wilderness but finding the manna inside the wilderness.”
― Annie F. Downs, Remember God

“His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.”
― Sally Rooney

“Christian complicity with racism in the twenty-first century looks different than complicity with racism in the past. It looks like Christians responding to 'black lives matter' with the phrase 'all lives matter.' It looks like Christians consistently supporting a president whose racism has been on display for decades. It looks like Christians telling black people and their allies that their attempts to bring up racial concerns are 'divisive.' It looks conversations on race that focus on individual relationships and are unwilling to discuss systemic solutions. Perhaps Christian complicity in racism has not changed after all. Although the characters and the specifics are new, many of the same rationalizations for racism remain.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“Jumping ahead to the victories means skipping the hard but necessary work of examining what went wrong with race and the church.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“Eliza wondered how many of her decisions were basically points of honour. Throughout her life, her job at the university, the bicycles and vegetarianism, even her haircut seemed as if they were chosen in reaction to the opinions of an invisible audience. She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn't sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted.”
― Sophie Ward

“In a time when large swaths of the American church have merely mimicked worldly concepts of power, going for bigger, louder, and glitzier, we have to return to the small, the quiet, the uncool, and the ordinary. Obscurity may very well be the spiritual discipline the American church needs to practice the most in the coming century.”
― Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church

“The right kind of fame arises from a life well lived, not a brand well cultivated.”
― Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church

“To be clear, I'm mocking neither my readers nor myself here - it took a long time, but eventually I stopped seeing women as inherently ridiculous.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don't Tell