Top 29 Andy Crouch Quotes

#1. Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.

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#2. At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

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#3. To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God - that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do.

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#4. Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

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#5. And so Jesus' power leads to overflow, abundance and excellence, that is, to flourishing.

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#6. The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work for, and wait for it.

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#7. if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.

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#8. It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

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#9. If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

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#10. Every idol makes two simple and extravagant promises. "You shall not surely die." "You shall be like God.

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#11. The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

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#12. Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.

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#13. It is an almost precise inversion of Lord Acton's observation: the more power we have over our children, the more we are willing to sacrifice for them. Love transfigures power. Absolute love transfigures absolute power. And power transfigured by love is the power that made and saves the world.

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#14. If we are known mostly for our ability to poke holes in every human project, we will probably not be known as people who bear the hope and mercy of God.

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#15. Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal to enable them to cultivate and create.

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#16. Why is power a gift? Because power is for flourishing. When power is used well, people and the whole cosmos come more alive to what they were meant to be. And flourishing is the test of power.

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#17. no man is the slave either of another man or of sin": Augustine, City of God 19.15, ed. and trans. R. W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 943.

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#18. power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

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#19. I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments - only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.

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#20. The deeper and more debilitating form of powerlessness is to be cut off from making meaning.

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#21. The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to their enemies - the horizons of shalom, the horizons of true humanity living in dependence on God.

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#22. Is the result of cooperation the seizing of power? Not so: cooperation mysteriously creates more power than there was before, so that the more we work together the more power we discover is available to us.

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#23. Here is what we need to discover about power: it is both better and worse than we could imagine.

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#24. All true cultural creativity happens at the edges of the horizons of the possible, so by definition our most culturally creative endeavors have a high risk of failure.

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#25. If culture is to change, it will be because some new tangible (or audible or visible or olfactory) thing is presented to a wide enough public that it begins to reshape their world.

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#26. True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.

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#27. King wrote. Silence is the underlords' failure.

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#28. The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power.

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#29. Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.

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