On Faith
The change got handed up before it got handed down, and only the slow perspective, the long view, lets you see the power that lies in ordinary people, in movements, in campaigns that often are seen as unrealistic, extreme, aiming for the impossible at their inception.
lithub.com • Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Reading Obama's Dreams from my Father showed me this. #books
It’s possible and worth it to make this world look a little more like Heaven.
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”
Walter Isaacson • Einstein: His Life and Universe
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Every single one of them didn’t allow the cost of their obedience to distract them from the God they were obeying.
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
It is to say that if there is more to reality than flesh and blood, then we should pray more than we do, lean into the Holy Spirit more than we have, and show more grace to everyone more than we’d like. Even when people are antagonistic toward us or annoying us beyond words. For even if they are an enemy, they are not the enemy.