“You showed me that my past didn’t make me unworthy to receive the nearness of God in the elements. I could stand before the table of grace a whole person — deeply flawed and still incredibly valued, hand-made by a loving God” ― (Lenny Duncan, Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US)
In every generation, everyone is obligated to see themselves as though they personally left
Egypt.
“All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chapel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.” – (Jeremy Taylor)
“When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives.” ― (Eric Ludy, When God Writes Your Life Story)
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)