David

“I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“sermons are at least as different from what Paul called “teaching” as they are from what he called “prophesying.”
― John Dickson, Hearing Her Voice, Revised Edition: A Case for Women Giving Sermons

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

“The notion of a carefully prepared exposition of Scripture, which we have equated with “teaching,” is virtually absent from Acts”
― John Dickson, Hearing Her Voice, Revised Edition: A Case for Women Giving Sermons