Naphtali

“Love is not always easy,” Curry writes, “but like with muscles we get stronger both with repetition and as the burden gets heavier. And it works.”[45]”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

“The cross is the assurance that effective prophetic criticism is done not by an outsider but always by one who must embrace the grief, enter into the death, and know the pain of the criticized one.”
― Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

“In both his teaching and his very presence, Jesus of Nazareth presented the ultimate criticism of the royal consciousness. He has, in fact, dismantled the dominant culture and nullified its claims. The way of his ultimate criticism is his decisive solidarity with marginal people and the accompanying vulnerability required by that solidarity. The only solidarity worth affirming is solidarity characterized by the same helplessness they know and experience.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination

“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?”
― The Doctor Matt Smith