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“When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.”
― Adopted for Life (Foreword by C. J. Mahaney): The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches
― Adopted for Life (Foreword by C. J. Mahaney): The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from such a condition, understand them, seek to change them. If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“You can't have too much dog in a book.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Without the theological aspect, the emphasis on adoption too easily is seen as mere charity. Without the missional aspect, the doctrine of adoption too easily is seen as mere metaphor.”
― Adopted for Life (Foreword by C. J. Mahaney): The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches
― Adopted for Life (Foreword by C. J. Mahaney): The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches
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