Truth Over Tribe Quotes

“Are your loves in the right order? Does your lover for the lamb transcend your love for the donkey or the elephant?”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish it away.”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“What if the goal wasn’t to win an argument but to win a friend?”
― Patrick Keith Miller, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“Today, public takedowns are the norm. Tribes do everything they can to protect their own and dunk on others. Shouldn’t the church be known as the one institution that publicly offers love, not condemnation? Isn’t that how Jesus treats us? How do you need to change your demeanor on social media? How can you publicly encourage others?”
― Patrick Keith Miller, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“Do you want to isolate yourself or be in community? Do you want to limit conversations to the safe subjects, or do you want to explore more interesting and spicy topics? Do you want to surround yourself with people who think just like you do, or do you want to learn and be challenged? Do you want painful pride-wrecked relationships with family and friends? Or do you want love powerful enough to outlast conflict created by names on a ballot?”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“The cost of allowing your bystander anxiety to silence you is simple: you lose your integrity. Some would rather live as cowards than die with bravery. I get it. But Christians should not be those people.”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“Jesus tells us to welcome immigrants AND protect the unborn, to pursue radical chastity AND racial justice, to create order AND create art, to ensure both the livelihoods of the poor AND the wealthy, to share our tables with the powerful AND the powerless, to affirm our varied ethnic identities AND cling to what unites us.”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“Jesus doesn't support the Democratic platform or the Republican platform. His vision of God's kingdom on Earth doesn't neatly fit into either tribal ideology.”
― Keith Simon, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant

“Jewish law might forbid befriending Gentiles, but God’s law never did. Peter narrowed God’s plan until it encompassed his tribe alone. Of course, we do the same thing when we think that God is for my tribe, my country, my people, and my party.”
― Patrick Keith Miller, Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant