“If you want one last picture of authority and vulnerability together, laughter will do the trick. To laugh, to really laugh out loud, is to be vulnerable, taken beyond ourselves, overcome by surprise and gratitude. And to really laugh may be the last, best kind of authority—the capacity to see the meaning of the whole story and discover that our final act, our only enduring responsibility in that story, is simply celebration, delight and worship.”
― Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
― Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
“If there's a moral to my story it's that salvation comes with the will to be a better human being...I had to be a better person, a wiser person, a more disciplined person to survive. I paid a heavy price.”
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