David J. Kleinhans

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David J. is Currently Reading

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At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan

by Jim Forest

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Nov 07, 2025 06:33AM

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Praying With Icons

by Jim Forest

bookshelves: iconography, spiritual-direction, currently-reading

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The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

by Byung-Chul Han

bookshelves: liturgical-renewal, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, currently-reading

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David J.’s Notes & Highlights

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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"Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what ...more

Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence

by Gregory A. Boyd

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David J.’s Quotes

“Hurry and love are incompatible.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

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“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. Sabbath is a gift that precedes work and enables us to work. (…) As with God’s Grace, rest is never a reward; it’s a gift.”
― Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

tags: rest, sabbath

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“Here’s my point: the solution to an overbusy life is not more time. It’s to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world

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“And so the Savior of the world directs us toward a re-appropriation of Lamech’s seventy time seven equation, applying it to the practice of radical forgiveness. The most remarkable thing about Christ-informed ethics is its commitment to forgiveness—indeed, if Christianity is about anything, it’s about forgiveness. So Jesus calls us beyond the ever-escalating revenge of Lamech and beyond the mitigated revenge of Moses into a world where revenge is renounced altogether. Jesus saves the world by turning exponential revenge into exponential forgiveness.”
― Brian Zahnd, The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey

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