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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
Indeed, our consumer society is grounded in the generation of artificial desires, readily transposed into urgent needs. The always-emerging new desires and new needs create a restless striving that sets neighbor against neighbor in order to get ahead, to have an advantage, and to accumulate at the expense of the other. The power of such a compulsion to “get,” of course, negates neighborly possibility.
Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide
Walter Brueggemann
It conveys itself as simple reality and does so in such a way that it never has to justify itself. The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
“There was a good reason the previous owners covered this all up!” I started saying over and over again. “It’s a lot easier to cover up brokenness than to restore it.”
Saturate
Jeff Vanderstelt
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