Mcdavid Quotes

great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives (also Abraham), cheated their brothers, seduced their in-laws, murdered, started civil wars through terrible family decisions, yet somehow—through a mixture of humility, near-insanity, and good fortune—served as conduits of God’s action in the world.4 The nation of Israel’s entire sacred history consists in its rejecting God’s ways over and over again in preference to their own, yet finding that God’s faithfulness vastly exceeds

Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor, was once fuming to her husband against the wrong kind of Christians, and he told her that “every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.”39

Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor, was once fuming to her husband against the wrong kind of Christians, and he told her that “every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

where the Law is a closed fist, the Gospel is an open hand.

While self-help and science-of-happiness books fill whole quadrants of bookstores, the fact that business is booming is a verdict unto itself: We may buy each new bestseller on the power of positivity, but each fresh purchase suggests its lack. As much as we wish it were true, we can’t seem to prove that the positive thinking industry is working itself out of a job.

While we may operate every day under the illusions of control, even our best efforts at maintaining it ultimately fall short.

In commanding love law can only point helplessly to that which it cannot produce.

for every ‘If you do,’ there’s an ‘If you don’t,’ a threat of punishment for every promise of reward.

Nothing shows our lack of freedom better than our addiction to control.

Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not how it is meant.

American Christianity now is in crisis, in large part because people have marketed it as a religion of good people getting better, when in fact it is a religion of bad people coping with their failure to be good.

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well-tended lawn. The swings and slide

Jason M Walker is a member of the American Psychological Association and is a certified College Psychology Professor. In the future, Jason M Walker plans to expand his private practice while also establishing himself as a full-time tenured professor in psychology with a local university.