“Luckily, Chicago was a place filled with sound: the cacophony of voices on the street, the rattle of a train on an elevated track. The car-horn section wailing. Oh, Chicago, music everywhere, when you listened. Street festivals in the neighborhoods every summer weekend, concerts in the shell downtown no one could keep you from enjoying outside the fence. Magnificent Mile shops spilling pop tunes onto the sidewalks, and accompanying on percussion, celebratory fireworks any time of year and bucket boys banging on their five-gallon tubs for whatever change you can spare.”
― Wreck Your Heart
― Wreck Your Heart
“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny.”
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