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“True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require us to recover these two biblical postures of cultivation and creation. And that recovery will involve revisiting the biblical story itself, where we discover that God is more intimately and eternally concerned with culture than we have yet come to believe.”
― Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

“There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus’ lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work. The challenge is disarmingly simple: one day a week, not to do anything that we know to be work.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus interrupts his agenda for those who have nothing to offer him but need everything from him.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power