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Over the course of the years they had been developing and flying the solid rocket motors, [they] had slowly expanded the parameters of what they regarded as acceptable risk in the joints. Incrementally, they had begun to accept as normal problems that deviated dangerously from the original design standards set for the boosters-and the seals that constrained the seething power of their volatile propellant in flight.

“Yet NASA officials had long ago learned that they could disregard such quantitative number crunching when it proved inconvenient:…”

“WE JUST GOT INFINITELY SMARTER.”

“[They have] ceased to believe in hell. And so they create hell for innocent men and have no fear that they themselves will ever face condemnation.”

This is so good 🤩

“This was the first moment that Frau Anna had shown her heart in any way. Gone was the veil of secrecy. Franz could see that there was something in the love this woman had for her husband that somehow enhanced her beauty.”

(From page 179) “Only Christianity can both warn us to avoid sexual sin and welcome us back in after it.”

“When we become convinced that sexual brokenness or trauma will forever define us, we idolize sex or trauma over God’s healing. The story of Christianity is better than that.”

(From page 178) “Pornography is not empowerment. It is rampant human degradation. Turning away does not mean we respect privacy, it means we ignore the abuse of precious image bearers.”

“You are an embodied human soul, dignified not because of what you can do but because of who God made you to be. Nothing we can create will ever outdo or replace what God created. That is good news.”

“Modern technology use is our Tower of Babel because it tries to make us gods. And it’s killing us instead.”

“Because of the work of Jesus, God uses hard things to make us stronger.”

“…for many, and especially many parents, modern life has tricked us into thinking that the good life for us and our children is to avoid suffering. It is not.”

“Grace means that at the end of my patience, there is more patience.”

“Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.”

(In the context of parenting young children): “Sleep deprivation is torturous when meaningless, but it becomes spiritual formation when offered in love.”

“Feasting is the call to do the hard work of joy, for the easiest thing in the world is to be serious and cynical, but the harder (and more Christian) thing to do is fight for laughter and levity.”

“…fasting is often the beginning of seeing myself more clearly, which is what makes fasting so wonderful. In that space of lack and frustration, I have to turn to God, for there are no other coping solutions left.”

“Obsessing about the brain and mental health leads to an excessively inward life consumed by self-care, while focusing on the brain as something you can garden in order to live a life of love leads to the outward life God made us for.”

Giving this another shot…

“Disappointment is inescapable but necessary; a misunderstood mercy and when approached properly, an agency for transformation…”

‘Honestly? God bless the police, but it’ll be quicker all round if we just show them to Elizabeth.’

“Better plus better will one day equals to the best.”

This took me a bit to get into, but it’s giving The Flatshare vibes??
Also the insults from Lorna are top notch: “More red flags than a communist parade.”

“He’s my courage to be still.”