"We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. Weâ€™ve been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around."

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Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.68, B&H Publishing Group

Jen Hatmaker

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“Find out what your gift is and nurture it.”

Source : "Katy Perry doesn't want to 'hide' from divorce" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 22, 2012.
“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

Source : "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.
“Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”
“TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.”
“We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr
“Two hearts are better than one.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.”

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