My answer to a friend: There is no success in ministry, only service and moments of celebration. If you choose to minister, expect to be misunderstood. All of the pain people carry will fall upon your brow, and you shall be the stand-in for every ignorant statement...
There's a difference between stupid and ignorant. The ignorant can learn. from Alias Grace
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
It is better to be silent than to dispute with the ignorant.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
I was wrong and embarrassingly ignorant to assume--no, believe!--liturgical churches of any kind were dry & boring with meaningless rituals practiced by detached people and that liturgical churches (across the board!) did not value the Scriptures OR the gospel the...