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“If we think only of the great needs, then we are less likely to notice the individual small needs requiring our help. And all the great needs grow really out of little ones, or better, from the fact that in our blindness we in the beginning failed to see the little needs.”
― Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich
― Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
“We often want our enemies’ next step to be repentance because we want them to admit what they did to hurt us or how they are wrong. But there may be other steps they need to take first. Jesus accepted the people who were unacceptable and made it clear He wants us to do that too. Not many people ever get condemned into life change. But people get loved into life change all the time. It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance (Rom. 2:4), and He empowers us to extend that same kindness to others.”
― How to Pick Up a Stripper and Other Acts of Kindness: Serving People Just as They Are
― How to Pick Up a Stripper and Other Acts of Kindness: Serving People Just as They Are
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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