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“we will see profound spiritual renovation if by God’s grace we make it our commitment not to put anyone down—except on our prayer list.”
― D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

“I don’t want to come here anymore.” Mom turned to me as I was sending them to the security check. She kept crying. Her eyes were red from daily washing with tears. I never thought I would face a choice between my parents and myself. One was the source of unconditional love for the last twenty-nine years; the other was the true self that I had just accepted after twenty-nine years of hiding and struggling.”
― Nick (Yu) He, Two Dads and Three Girls: Searching for Sexual Identity, Falling in Love, and Building a Family through Surrogacy

“Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Have you ever seen workers build a brick building? They don’t just stack the bricks on top of each other. They need some sort of glue to hold all those bricks together. The glue for bricks is called mortar. In the same way, your body is made up of 37.2 trillion little bricks called cells. And like a building, those cells need some sort of glue to hold them all together. The glue for cells is called laminin. Laminin holds your body together. The thing that’s even more amazing about laminin is what it looks like. When you take a peek at laminin (and you’ll need an electron microscope to see it), it looks like . . . a cross.”
― Louie Giglio, Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God and Science