Beverly

“Oftentimes, if you ask Christians why they believe in God, you’ll hear answers like “I just know He’s there,” or “I can feel His presence.” Our personal experiences with God are important, of course, but if experiences are all we have to go on, it can be really easy to question their basis in reality during difficult times.”
― Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture

“The lie of socialism contradicts every major aspect of the beautiful, ordinary design God laid out for human beings in the first pages of Genesis. Democratic socialism specifically rails against what God says about our identity as man and woman, our role as parents, our relationship with our neighbors, our true mission as the Church, our attitude toward our work, and our calling when it comes to the environment.”
― Leah Thayer Pritchard, Operation Ordinary: Live the Truth, Resist Democratic Socialism

“The tie that functionally binds the worldviews of millions of people is the authority of the self rather than the authority of any given religion and its god(s).”
― Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture

“it’s okay to start with a small faith. We’ve got a big God.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, On a Summer Tide