Amyjo

“Sometimes the things that need to be set right are not just in the lives of those we seek to serve. The things that need to be set right may also be in our own lives.”
― Eugene Cho, Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?

“But around God’s table, and around God’s people, you don’t have to pretend or overcompensate. You can just be. And in just being, you can, in the fierce and loving eyes of  God, be known, be whole, and maybe even find a little rest. Because keeping it all going is just exhausting.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“Some would say that instead of the cross being about Jesus standing in for us to take the really bad spanking from God for our own naughtiness (the fancy theological term for this is substitutionary atonement), what happens at the cross is a “blessed exchange.” God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God’s own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“Now, I am not suggesting that we all adopt a lifestyle of absolute poverty but rather a theology, praxis, and lifestyle of enough. We have enough. We are blessed and blessed immensely. God has given us enough. God is our enough. I’m reminded of the wise words G. K. Chesterton said: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”11”
― Eugene Cho, Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?