Cara

“For most of us, the real aim isn’t to enjoy a few pleasures right now, but to build habits that will make us happy over the long term. Sometimes, that means giving up something in the present, or demanding more from ourselves.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

“I am rather amused that crab grass is millet, and I pass the fact along because it may come in handy in some doomsday future when those who have survived the nuclear war some of our politicians think is ‘winnable’ will be scratching around looking for a crop of edible grain whose ‘survivability’ is only too well known.”
― Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden

“But the modern-day church doesn’t like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we’ve got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished—proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”
― Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium