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Book cover for Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints
“We cannot become ourselves unless we know ourselves.”
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Peter Enns
“Shepherding us toward wisdom, kicking and screaming if need be: that is the Bible’s purpose.”
Peter Enns, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That’s Great News

Trevor Noah
“In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.”
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Diana Butler Bass
“Much of what passes for gratitude today appears to be a sort of secular prosperity gospel.”
Diana Butler Bass, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

Richard Rohr
“When you go into the full depths and death, sometimes even the depths of your sin, you come out the other side—and the word for that is resurrection.”
Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

Madeleine L'Engle
“we do not have to understand God’s ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many aeons it takes, is going to be all right.”
Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

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