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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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