Steven Garber > Quotes

“Kenya, Kazakhstan and K Street too? Yes...that all of God's people might love and serve him with gladness and singleness of heart, in our various vocations taking the wounds of the world into our hearts - the heartaches and longings, sorrows and disappointments, and sometimes evil - and finding in that calling that our own hearts are healed too. In N.T. Wright's theologically rich image, becoming healed healers. May it be so.”
― Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior

“Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared that we would become a trivial culture. . . . Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

“There is much to be cynical about—and it is a good answer if there has not been an incarnation. But if that has happened, if the Word did become flesh, and if there are men and women who in and through their own vocations imitate the vocation of God, then sometimes and in some places the world becomes something more like the way it ought to be.”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

“The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

“Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

“to have knowledge of means to have responsibility to means to have care for.”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

“In the context of one’s calling, how does one learn to see with the eyes of the heart, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world is and isn’t?”
― Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good