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This book is soooooooooo good😦

This book is dragging holy smokes

“A lot of times you tell people God is love.
And they laugh.
“Are you kidding me?
Do you see where I live?
Did you see my dad beat me last night?
God is love?
I don’t buy it.”
The only love people in your world will understand is you. God and you loving them.
Then they’ll believe.”

“Sir, you’re right.
I’m very poor.
But that’s not why I stayed on this job.
I'd rather be poor.
But God and I have big dreams, sir.
And with big dreams you have to keep on,
if you give up in one little area,
the next big thing that comes up
you'll want to give up in that, too.
And with big dreams, sir, you just can't give up."

“Prayer is the way that all the things we believe in and that Christ has won for us actually become our strength. Prayer is the way the truth is worked into your heart to create new instincts, reflexes, and dispositions.”

“…[If] prayer were completely ineffible, when the disciples asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1), Jesus would have responded, “I can’t — it’s just undefinable.” He did not say that prayer is like the sound of one hand clapping. Rather, he gave his disciples a set of words, the Lord‘s prayer.”

“To pray in Jesus‘s name means… to reground our relationship with God in the saving work of Jesus over and over again. It also means to recognize your status as a child of God, regardless of your inner state. God our father is committed to his children’s good, as any good father would be.” 😭

“Viet Dietrich, one of Luther‘s friends, wrote: “There is not a day on which he does not devote at least three hours, the very ones most suitable for work, to prayer. Once I was fortunate to overhear his prayer. Good God, what faith in his words! He speaks with the great reference of one who speaks to his God, and with the trust and hope of one who speaks with his father and friend.” WOW

Geez this story bible is legit so good😭

Reading every morning with Grayson :’)

“The decades after the civil war proved that racism never goes away, it just adapts.” 😓 dang