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“Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.”
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
“You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served".”
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When love's no longer being served".”
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“There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ’s lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We live in golden calf country. Religious feeling runs high but in ways far removed from what was said in Sinai and done on Calvary. While everyone has a hunger for God, deep and insatiable, none us has any great desire for him. What we really want is to be our own gods and to have whatever other gods that are around to help in this work.”
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
“Thomas Merton wrote, “it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not ‘what he ought to be.’ If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether.”50”
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
― Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
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Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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