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I loved my friend. He went away from me. There’s nothing more to say. The poem ends, Soft as it began,— I loved my friend.
“A temptation of our culture is the need to debate and comment on every single event. Sometimes, wisdom is evident in silence. Sometimes, silence is necessary for sanity.”
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
“It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“We must consider how we tend to align politically and then question our tribes. But more than that, this must be personal. We must be willing to pick apart what we believe. We must think independently. We must pursue truth. We must watch what we believe and what we share. Without this critical thinking, we do not know our blind spots.”
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
“Loving God isn’t any different from loving a man—or a child. It’s wanting to be with Him, to be near Him.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Nonviolence is not an invitation to be trampled on. Rather, it requires us to believe that God’s ways are more powerful than ours.”
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
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