

“Eventually I became a tad compulsive about hearing certain songs. At first it was a handful of jazz classics—Miles Davis’s “Freddie Freeloader,” John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things,” Frank Sinatra’s “Luck Be a Lady.” (Before one primary debate, I must have played that last track two or three times in a row, clearly indicating a lack of confidence in my preparations.)”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land

“For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there’s hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.”
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“One of the main reasons I remain a Christian is because I love knowing that my sins are not only forgiven, but also forgotten!”
― Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
― Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son

“We overcome, not because we’re a moral majority or a righteous remnant, but because we’re blood-covered sinners who know that if the gospel can change us, it can change anyone.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“People in a cult don't know they're in a cult. But everyone else can tell.”
― Inside The Mind of an Introvert
― Inside The Mind of an Introvert
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