Rodney Hall

“The church doesn’t lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children’s church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, “Let the little children come to me.”[222”
― Leonard Sweet, Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism

“We have backed away from any vision of common ground; we have, instead, divided American life into a set of experiences—Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish; male and female, heterosexual and homosexual; Indian, Anglo American, African American, Mexican American, Asian American. For what were very good reasons, did we over-accent cultural differences?[214”
― Leonard Sweet, Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future

“Reasoning is a lost skill of the children of the TV generation, with their famously short attention span. Writing can help them get it back.”
― William Zinsser, Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All