Jack Daniel Taylor

“What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?”
― John Eldredge, Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad

“Let’s be honest: we prefer distraction. The more distracted we are, the less present we are to our souls’ various hurts, needs, disappointments, boredom, and fears. It’s a short-term relief with long-term consequences. What blows my mind is how totally normal this has become; it’s the new socially acceptable addiction. I’ve got a friend who decided to break with his; he now turns his phone off over the weekend. I text him, and he doesn’t reply until Sunday night or Monday morning. I’m embarrassed by my irritation: C’mon, man—you know the protocol. Everybody agrees to be totally available, anywhere, anytime, 24/7. It’s what we do. What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?”
― John Eldredge, Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad

“The church is the place to get the kind of help you need” and to “love you to wholeness.”
― Scot McKnight, A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God's Design for Life Together

“To make room for God to fill the vessel of our soul, we have to begin moving out some of the unnecessary clutter that continually accumulates there like the junk drawer in your kitchen.”
― John Eldredge, Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad