Rob Noland

“We have biblical warrant to speak firmly and passionately about people who misuse God’s name, abuse image bearers, or lead God’s people astray. But we cannot claim prophetic fire without also claiming prophetic humility: “Woe to me!” Isaiah cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty” (Isa. 6:5).”
― Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

“When human parents named a child in the ancient world, they would use the name to indicate what they hoped the child would become; when God names someone he names them according to what he knows they will become.”
― Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

“We should not become weary of doing little things for the love of God. God regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which the work is done.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God In Modern English

“So every society, be it religious or secular, totalitarian or multicultural, urban or agricultural, will be organized according to many overlapping figures that cohere into a dominant plausibility structure: small- and large-scale pictures and performances of truth woven into the fabric of the daily assumptions, rituals, actions, and choices of the people who live in that society and acting as a powerful catechesis into a particular way of viewing the world.”
― Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture