Ryan Brink

“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

“When people love their church, its leaders can sometimes get complacent and lose touch with how essential their own transformation is to the effectiveness of their spiritual leadership.”
― Greg L. Hawkins, Move: What 1000 Churches Reveal About Spiritual Growth

“In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody