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“Only connect!”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“There is something deep inside of you so good that you’re most likely suppressing it because you can’t believe that bringing it to life might help to heal the world. You need to bring it out—over and over again.”
― Steve Wiens, Beginnings: The First Seven Days of the Rest of Your Life

“We need to name and honor what is truest about us—and then give it away.”
― Steve Wiens, Beginnings: The First Seven Days of the Rest of Your Life

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

“The sabbatical year would greatly hamper Israel’s ability to build an economy that would fuel a dominating empire. If all debts were forgiven every seven years and free labor was set free, the economy would be forced to recalibrate. Here we see God placing boundaries on the world’s capacity to build empire, similar to what God did at the Tower of Babel.”
― Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

“Sin is not about the personal imperfection of the self. Rather, sin is any act that breaks any of the relationships God declared very good in the beginning.”
― Lisa Sharon Harper

“Do I love God? To love God is to trust God, to choose God, and to choose God's way to peace and wholeness.”
― Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right