Amanda Tranmer

“Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose. Being”
― Dallas Willard, The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus – Demonstrating Christianity Through a Transformed Life of Love and Humility

“It is an essential part of the gospel that conviction must always precede conversion; the gospel of Christ condemns before it releases.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“The best way to look at this might be to recognize that you probably can’t fix these things. They’ll always be around. But maybe you can put your thumb on the scale a little for the people at the margins.” There”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“It is only in the heat of pain and suffering, both mental and physical, that real human character is forged. One does not develop courage without facing danger, patience without trials, wisdom without heart- and brain-racking puzzles, endurance without suffering, or temperance and honesty without temptations. These are the very things we treasure most about people. Ask yourself if you would be willing to be devoid of all these virtues. If your answer is no, then don’t scorn the means of obtaining them. The gold of human character is dug from torturous mines, but its dung and dirt are quite easily come by. And it should come as no surprise to us that in our time—the time of the great flight from pain—such virtues as these are conspicuous only by their absence. I’m”
― Dallas Willard, The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus – Demonstrating Christianity Through a Transformed Life of Love and Humility