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“When in doubt, we should make decisions to help those who are being overlooked or disenfranchised. Our decisions should come down on the side of showing love to the immature believer or the nonbeliever. Those who are most mature in Christ need to be willing to make the greatest sacrifices.”
― Eric Bryant, Not Like Me: Learning to Love, Serve, and Influence Our Divided World

“American Christians’ alignment with the Republican party became an idol because it made promises of protection, required sacrifices to be able to continue to make those promises, and worked less and less well at fulfilling them over time as the hold it held over Christians became stronger.”
― Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

“Idols “work less and less well and they actually demand more and more of you until eventually, when the idol has totally taken over your life, it’s not giving you anything it promised at the beginning, and it’s asking you to totally abdicate your image-bearing identity.”8”
― Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

“I don’t know what to do with what I’ve learned,” she said. “I can’t fix your pain, and I can’t take it away, but I can see it. And I can work for the rest of my life to make sure your children don’t have to experience the pain of racism.” And then she said nine words that I’ve never forgotten: “Doing nothing is no longer an option for me.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness