Emily Grimm

“In our effort to become like him, we actually fall in to a sophisticated form of idolatry-we tend to make Jesus into a perfected version of our image and then strive to become like that. Nope. We will never be like Christ. Let's deny false self, worship him, and be free.”
― Steve Cuss, Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs

“We forget this world is fallen. We forget that it's our duty to remember to be better to stand up to Evil when it shows itself, even if it sometimes shows itself within our own hearts. In fact, that's the only kind over which we really have total control, the kind within us. It's also the easiest kind to make right.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“He held forth about political theory and about Marxism, maintaining that while there was a place for zealots in every revolution-unshakeable belief could carry a marginalized person very far indeed-each ideology held its share of fundamental flaws. For a radical thinker to exist successfully in the world he'd helped to change, he had to embrace the bitter compromises”
― Nathaniel Ian Miller, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven