Yosemite Sam

“It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“the cost of caring for the “incurables” was prohibitive. They must “give their lives” for the greater cause just as everyone else, and just as the parents of soldiers must “make the ultimate sacrifice” of”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“Gradually there crept into my mind the realization that God sees this all the time. He sees it, experiences it, knows it from every possible point of view, this and billions of other scenes like and unlike it, in this and billions of other worlds. Great tidal waves of joy must constantly wash through his being. It is perhaps strange to say, but suddenly I was extremely happy for God and thought I had some sense of what an infinitely joyous consciousness he is and of what it might have meant for him to look at his creation and find it “very good.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“On the one hand, for each of us, sin is the claim to the right to myself, and so to my way of seeing things, which—far more than class, gender, race and generation—is the ultimate source of human relativity. On the other hand, sin is the deliberate repudiation of God and the truth of his way of seeing things. If my way of seeing things is decisive, anyone who differs from me is wrong by definition—including God. No,”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion