If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.44
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[W]e aren’t designed to spend too much time thinking about ourselves … we are healthier when we’re distracted by a noble cause.
– Donald Miller paraphrasing Viktro Frankl in Scary Close p.39
I was drawn to girls who played the victim because girls who play the victim make you feel like a hero. Until you resent them.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.10
“Love can’t be earned, it can only be given.”
– Donald Miller in Scary Close Author’s Note
“Hospitality connects us to a place, because while hospitality can happen pretty much anywhere, it has to happen somewhere.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.205
“Whereas the global market aims for efficiency and speed, Christian hospitality is content to wait, to take time, to apparently do nothing if need be, since the aim is to be in God’s abundant time of giving and receiving.”
– Elizabeth Newman quoted by C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.203
“A shared meal is characterized by vulnerability, social recognition, proximity and revelation.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.201
“The biographer of St. John the Almsgiver (ca. 550 – 616) said that the Patriarch of Alexandria upended traditional notions of power by calling the “poor and beggars” his “masters and helpers.” He even gave a double portion of alms to a man whom he knew to be a false beggar, saying, “perchance it is my Christ and He is making trial of me.” ”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.199
“In our slowness, we can be attentive to the needs that arise around us, recognizing them sometimes even before they are spoken.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.194
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