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“Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.”
― William Sloane Coffin

“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“Jesus didn’t seem very interested in exposing symptomatic sinners—tax collectors, drunkards, prostitutes, etc. Instead Jesus challenged the guardians of systemic sin—the power brokers of religion and politics.”
― Brian Zahnd, A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace