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“Salvation doesn’t mean simply being rescued from the consequences of our wrong choices. It doesn’t mean being delivered into better circumstances. It means being changed. Salvation isn’t primarily a matter of going to the good place. It’s about becoming good people.”
― John Ortberg, Eternity Is Now in Session: A Radical Rediscovery of What Jesus Really Taught about Salvation, Eternity, and Getting to the Good Place

“Translating punctuation from the Hebrew Bible is a problem, since ancient Hebrew has no periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, or quotation marks. The King James Bible, on the other hand, has a lot of punctuation. It affects tense, sound, and sense, but it also makes everything read slower. Way slower. With a period at the end of the sentence, God is definitely done with creation, instead of breathlessly rushing on and possibly still continuing. Staring at that period, I realize that my reading is stalling for an obvious reason: the King James Version is taking me longer to read because it is longer.”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

“I don’t care who you are, or what has happened in your life up to this point. You are not a failure, and you do not have to live your life as one.”
― Kevin Leman, When Your Best Isn't Good Enough: Breaking Free from Perfectionism

“With life comes many regretful actions that we can’t undo. Most of these come down to things we do or say in the heat of the moment.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before We Forget Kindness