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“We were created to look away from ourselves toward God, other people, and all of creation and say, “You first.”
― Jimmy Davis, Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Saturdays and Mondays were Sundays’ bookends. On Saturdays preachers were neurotic planning what they would say, and on Mondays they were neurotic for having said it.”7”
― Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor

“The church will not be judged by the number of baptisms or upon the size of its membership, but upon how faithful it has been to teaching the whole counsel of God.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, THE CHURCH: Why Bother?: The Nature, Purpose, & Functions of the Local Church

“Where there is no gospel, there is no church!”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, THE CHURCH: Why Bother?: The Nature, Purpose, & Functions of the Local Church

“In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.”
― Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor

“The world is looking for answers. If you have some of them, for goodness’ sake spit ’em out. The world is looking for servants of God whose yes is yes. How elementary, how refreshing.”
― Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor

“We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.”
― Jimmy Davis, Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life

“God uses suffering to loosen our grip on the lies we’ve embraced, and to implant in us his words of truth, revealing to us the depth of that truth at levels we could never glimpse in the absence of suffering.”
― Jimmy Davis, Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life

“Vision is seeing down the road ahead, the road called “what God has given me to do.” Image is how you want the world to see you.”
― Calvin Miller, Letters to a Young Pastor

“Richard Baxter, preaching illegally in his own home after a ten-year silence, says, “I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.”
― William D. Blake, This Day in Christian History