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“Humility doesn’t come easy to the American evangelical. The self-importance that accompanies citizenship in the world’s mightiest nation is trouble enough, never mind when it’s augmented by the certainty of exclusive membership in the afterlife. We are an immodest and excessively indulged people. We have grown so accustomed to our advantages—to our prosperity and our worldly position—that we feel entitled to them.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
“More than any figure in American history, the forty-fifth president transformed evangelical from spiritual signifier into political punch line, exposing the selective morality and ethical inconsistency and rank hypocrisy that had for so long lurked in the subconscious of the movement.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them.”
― A Parchment of Leaves
― A Parchment of Leaves
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