“To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.”
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.”
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“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
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from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
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“A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.”
― Letters of C. S. Lewis
― Letters of C. S. Lewis
“We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.”
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
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