David Dark Quotes

#1. Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

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#2. [...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

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#3. Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

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#4. Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

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#5. What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

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#6. If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.

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#7. And for the sake of humility
a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

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#8. There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

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#9. [...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.

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