Wayne Larson

“God gave Israel a law that would govern just relations between people (Exodus 20); preserve rights for women, slaves, and strangers (Exodus 21); envision right social relations (Exodus 22); invite respect for aliens and strangers (Exodus 23:9); and engender respect and stewardship over the land (Exodus 23:10-13). Far from limiting freedom, it aimed to set God’s newly liberated people free to flourish.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places

“One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of this earth. I must know if the people who live on those other prairies feel the same way about their horizons as we do about ours.”
― John Janovy Jr., Yellowlegs

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
― Aeschylus

“Keep your eye on the intuitions, and don’t take people’s moral arguments at face value. They’re mostly post hoc constructions made up on the fly, crafted to advance one or more strategic objectives.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion