Cheryl Ballard

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“the Naaman Effect is when we receive grace and peace from God to live in a state of misalignment. We own new convictions, yet we keep them to ourselves as we attempt to stay in community with people who think and feel differently. This ancient story offered me respite from much of the tension, helping me get through the final two years at my unaffirming church without feeling like a total fraud.”
― Colby Martin, UnClobber: Expanded Edition with Study Guide: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

“We don’t get to choose our parents,” Sunny said. “If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost