The Voting Booth Quotes

“You can complain and lament your culture as Exodus and Exile advise, or you can learn to choose it. You can accept this time and this place as what God has assigned to you for a reason. You can embrace the heavy beam of your culture and under its weight find a blessing you did not expect. True joy comes when we learn to choose what we did not choose.”
― Skye Jethani, The Voting Booth: A new vision for Christian engagement in a post-Christian culture

“Exodus and Exile are motivated by fear, as we’ve already established. Their paths require you to clearly identify the enemy your are fleeing or fighting. In fact, those who’ve dedicated themselves to one of those paths will often fixate far more on their cultural enemies than on Jesus Christ. They will define themselves and their communities by what or who they are against. That is why I say they must have a devil, but the presence of God on their paths is entirely optional and often ignored.”
― Skye Jethani, The Voting Booth: A new vision for Christian engagement in a post-Christian culture

“Your vote should not be cast in fear. A fearful vote will lead to harm in two ways. First, it will ensure that your vote is made selfishly; from a desire to protect yourself and your interests rather than a desire to serve and bless others. Second, a fearful vote is usually won by a candidate that employed fear to gain support. Where the fires of fear are stoked, the warm glow of Christian love will not long endure. Those who think making people afraid will result in flourishing are deluded. They are not on a path paved by Christ that leads toward his kingdom, no matter how many Bibles they display or Christian endorsements they secure. A fearful vote is a vote for demagoguery not divinity.”
― Skye Jethani, The Voting Booth: A new vision for Christian engagement in a post-Christian culture

“It is entirely possible to walk the paths of Exodus or Exile without God, but you cannot walk their paths without a devil.”
― Skye Jethani, The Voting Booth: A new vision for Christian engagement in a post-Christian culture