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“Love God, love your neighbor, Jesus said, a perfect sound bite for the ages. But did Christ know how complicated my neighbors were? How hard they were to love sometimes? How much easier it is to surround myself with people who look and think and act like me, to love only myself? Yes, yes, yes, he does, but he is polite and firm in his response. A messy, present, incarnational love is the simplest and hardest call of all, the call that all of us were created to follow.”
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – Essays on Love, Justice, and Reimagining Citizenship
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – Essays on Love, Justice, and Reimagining Citizenship
“Jesus knew what it meant to never be at home in your own place.”
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
“God loves everybody, exactly the same. No matter what you do. If you grew up like me, then you are waiting for the asterisk to that sentence. Sure, God loves everybody the same. *But he really likes it when you go to Africa. Or start a food kitchen. Or adopt through foster care. Or buy cool, overpriced shoes that may or may not give an orphan in some nameless country a complimentary pair. Or turn your TV into a garden for succulents. Or whatever it is that we believe we must do in order to be fully loved. God took away my asterisk, and now I don’t know how to classify myself anymore. I’m just a sheep of his hand, and it is more lowly and lovely than I could have ever imagined.”
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – Essays on Love, Justice, and Reimagining Citizenship
― Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – Essays on Love, Justice, and Reimagining Citizenship
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“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thouness. Who today can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another?”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?”
― The Psalms with Commentary
― The Psalms with Commentary
“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”
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“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
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