Joshua

“History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.”
― Walter Wink

“We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.”
― Jedediah Purdy, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom

“Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will “naturally” choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.”
― Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix