Rachel

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”
― Hannah Anderson, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment

“A Gospel that does not speak to one’s total needs—e.g. need for work, education, food, housing, clothes, clean water, respect, and love—is surely no Gospel.”
― Vernon E. Light, Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model

“Those people knew a degree, a good job, a savings account, and comprehensive medical insurance were the safety net that wise people put in place before obeying God. Trusting God wasn’t anything so foolish as total dependency on him.”
― Alia Joy, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack

“If sin is loving something more than God, then idolatry is what happens when we apply creativity to this twisted love. Idolatry is the prideful act of adding imagination to our rebellion in order to create something to take God’s place in our lives. Creativity and idolatry come as a package deal. Idolatry is what happens when image bearers become image makers with creation’s images. It’s why creativity so quickly became idolatry’s handmaiden after the fall. In the chaos of cosmic treason, those made in the likeness of God fashion replacement gods in their own shattered likeness through their own misplaced creativity.”
― Thomas J. Terry, Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life