Omar Henry

“Why are so many Adventist churches cold and unwelcoming? Why so little zeal for souls? Why the lack of joy? Why the judgmentalism and criticism? Why the indifference toward strangers and guests? Perhaps because cold churches and cold Adventists haven’t experienced the incredible nature of grace. They haven’t yet experienced salvation - indeed, all of life - as a gift.”
― William G. Johnsson, The Fragmenting of Adventism

“Honestly, when people feel the need to resort to dehumanizing slogans, or when they can’t agree with a single aspect of the other person’s view, I start to wonder if they’re compensating for unexamined weaknesses in their own view.”
― Preston Sprinkle

“It isn’t sexist to acknowledge sex differences. What’s sexist is assuming that women must be the same as men in order to be treated as equals.”
― Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

“Thus we may have a duty to rescue a drowning man and, perhaps, if we live on a dangerous coast, to learn lifesaving so as to be ready for any drowning man when he turns up. It may be our duty to lose our own lives in saving him. But if anyone devoted himself to lifesaving in the sense of giving it his total attention—so that he thought and spoke of nothing else and demanded the cessation of all other human activities until everyone had learned to swim—he would be a monomaniac. The rescue of drowning men is, then, a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory