Wayne Larson

“Our faith in merit is spiritually and morally harmful for parents and children, teachers and students, winners and losers, individuals and communities. And it is based on the belief that we are our own.”
― Alan Noble, You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World

“Job needed friends to engage the pain, not interpret the pain. He needed friends who would join the chorus of lament, not offer a recipe for a more faithful life. In the end, Job is commended for his honesty while his theologically correct buddies are scolded for their insensitivity. God does not want us to disguise ourselves, hiding the pain we feel so deeply.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
― Aeschylus

“Keep your eye on the intuitions, and don’t take people’s moral arguments at face value. They’re mostly post hoc constructions made up on the fly, crafted to advance one or more strategic objectives.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion