Donna Neeper

“For 40 years, the prevailing mindset of the industry was that people wouldn't pay $30 for a premium cotton T shirt made in America. They'd sooner spend eighteen dollars for a pack of six-- three dollars a shirt-- made by Hanes in the Dominican Republic. That mindset had shut down the mills. That mindset had cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and gutted once flourishing communities. It had caused a cheapening of quality.”
― Steven Kurutz, American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

“The French perfected the clean, elegant line and the atelier approach to making clothing. The Italians were masters of the fine handwork needed for leather goods and tailoring. What America excelled at as the apparel business scaled up and industrialized in the early 20th century was mass-produced good-quality, hard-wearing clothes. American workwear and sportswear, like American cars, had a tough, overbuilt quality: the copper button fly on a pair of Levi's, the waxed cotton "tin cloth" that made Filson gear able to withstand wind, rain, and maybe even a blast of dynamite.”
― Steven Kurutz, American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

“Fourth, it is the nature of the gods to morph and transmute themselves to alter their appearances and names. So Inanna became Ishtar, Ishtar became Ashtarte, Ashtarte became Ashtoreth, Aphrodite, and Venus. It happened in the ancient world. It has happened ever since.”
― Jonathan Cahn, The Avatar

“As light warriors, we're looking for opportunities to provide solutions, not for places where we can create conflict. We are the problem-solvers, the peacemakers, the healers, the love-bringers, the growth seekers, the encouragers. True spiritual warfare is all about occupying territory for the glory of God by advancing in His light. It's not so much about fighting as it is about resting. It is based on the finished work of Christ which is already settled in Heaven.”
― Joshua Mills, Light Warriors: A Heavenly Strategy for Spiritual Warfare