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“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an environment. None has ever called its feeling for its home place biocentric or anthropocentric. None has ever thought of its connect...”
“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
“Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of people sufferingI have not been blind to them in the way that privilege allows, the way my...”
“By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of becoming more like Christ through the forming and shaping influence of the church community, we fo...”
“I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.”
“Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.”
“Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.”
“A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.”
“The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectua...”
“A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.”
“If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.”
“The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin”
“I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.”
“The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.”
“The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.”
“Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.”
“Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the actio...”
“Having a big family is costly and invasive. As we realize how big our family is in Christ, how our family obligations transcend our artificial boundaries, there ought to be a weightiness to our res...”
“Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.”
“Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.”
