Brad Green

“We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

“I no longer believe love works like a fairy tale but like farming. Most of it is just getting up early and tilling the soil and then praying for rain. But if we do the work, we just might wake up one day to find an endless field of crops rolling into the horizon. In my opinion, that’s even better than a miracle. I’d rather earn the money than win the lottery because there’s no joy in a reward unless it comes at the end of a story.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“Students will sometimes decide that they don’t like where they are sitting, and I probably won’t notice if they re-seat themselves over by their friend.  And they are right.  I’m very busy in class.  So if I don’t have a serious consequence, it’s worth it for them to take that gamble, and pretty soon it becomes rampant.  Then I start nagging, and I hate nagging.  So on the first time, I warn them that what they are doing is actually in the category of defiance which should earn them a referral, or at least a detention.”
― Kristen Coad, Easy Classroom Management For Difficult Schools: A Simple System for Middle and High School Classrooms

“Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.”
― Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery