Quotes
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“It isn’t that grace is ineffective or inefficient but that we are, being what we are, imperfect vessels for it. “
The man must never have known a longer hour. Hope is a thorn in the side of doubt, not a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. It aches. And at the end of it all he does —you will—still fail. Peter denies Christ again. The rooster crows, and Jesus looks at Peter, because…
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“Oh, yes, rowdy old capitalism. Let it ply its music.”
Workers, a category that seems to subsume us all except the idlest rich, should learn what they need to learn to be competitive in the new economy. All the rest is waste and distraction. Competitive with whom? On what terms? To what end? With anyone who has done a clever thing we did not think…
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“Then white evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump by a larger margin than they had voted for any presidential candidate.”
Black congregants — as recounted by people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Fort Worth and elsewhere — had already grown uneasy in recent years as they watched their white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans. They heard prayers for Paris, for Brussels, for law enforcement; they heard that one should keep one’s eyes…
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“Everyone knows, deep down, that there has to be some sort of judgment if there is to be justice.”
Moore: You argue that our understanding of the judgment of God has become untethered to His love. Kindly unpack that some for us. Rutledge: Well, I guess it’s pretty obvious that our culture despises “judgment” above all things. There is hardly any room for discernment or connoisseurship any more. If you love Bach more than you love…
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“Her death, like her father’s to some extent, is another reminder of what it means to embody and to carry in the body the full experience of being Black in the United States.”
Ms. Garner’s death means much and it’s impossible for me to distance her death from her father’s death. They were two different people and if I can find one common line between them, it is, for me, that neither of them should have died when they died. Her death, like her father’s to some extent,…
David W. Swanson 