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Family will, sooner or later, reveal that we are not the person our families need us to be.
“We need habits and rhythms to keep us honest. By scheduling things (like time with friends), we introduce accountability and honesty into an important part of our lives: the currency of our purpose. Time.”
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“Work, after all, isn’t merely about providing for one’s family. It is certainly that, but it is also about having a sense of purpose, a means of serving one’s neighbors, a place to fit in.”
― Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
― Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
“These words are among the most amazing recorded in Scripture. Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, invites us into the intimacy of the circle of friendship that exists between him and the Father.”
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“God cares not only about immaterial souls but also about the material world. We’re not spirits, zipping about. We’re bodies, too. And that whole complex—body plus soul—is always in a particular place, at a particular time. We’re right here, right now. Place matters.”
― Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
― Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
“Since the Fall, evil feels omnipresent, making cynicism an easy sell. Because cynicism sees what is “really going on,” it feels real, authentic. That gives cynicism an elite status since authenticity is one of the last remaining public virtues in our culture.”
― A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
― A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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