Amanda

“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser. –Mother Jones”
― Taylor Brown, Rednecks

“God isn’t in the event;
God is in the results after the event. He is in the love and concern and caring.”
― Jennifer Worth

“How we feel about Jesus or how close we feel to God is meaningless next to how God acts upon us. How God indeed enters into our messy lives and loves us through them, whether we want God’s help or not. And how, even after we’ve experienced some sort of resurrection, it’s never perfect or impressive like an Easter bonnet, because, like Jesus, resurrected bodies are always in rough shape.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“But if the customer knows that five dollars is the actual price that cup of coffee should be—the correct price to ensure that everyone involved in bringing that cup of coffee into existence is being treated humanely and given a chance to live with dignity—would that customer balk or step up?”
― Dave Eggers, The Monk of Mokha