Jacob Sweeney

“In Augustine's view, "It is life outside the Christian community which fails to be truly public, authentically political. The opposition is not between public and private, church and world, but between political virtue and political vice. At the end of the day, it is the secular order that will be shown to be `atomistic' in its foundations."" A society that has no place for God will disintegrate into an amoral aggregate of competing, self-aggrandizing interests that are destructive of the commonweal. In the end it will be enveloped in darkness.”
― Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

“To learn how to pray is to enter the world of a child, where all things are possible.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

“Companies and organizations with a clear sense of WHY never worry about it. They don’t think of themselves as being like anyone else and they don’t have to “convince” anyone of their value. They don’t need complex systems of carrots and sticks. They are different, and everyone knows it. They start with WHY in everything they say and do.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way