70 Quotes by Jamie Arpin-Ricci

You are not obligated to be an apologist for your life.

Gradualism veiled as hope is all too often a balm to the privileged and a poison to the oppressed.

Shalom is what love looks like in the flesh. The embodiment of love in the context of a broken creation, shalom is a hint at what was, what should be, and what will one day be again. Where sin disintegrates and isolates, shalom brings together and restores. Where fear and shame throw up walls and put on masks, shalom breaks down barriers and frees us from the pretense of our false selves.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness could not colonize it.

God is less interested in you performing well and more interested in seeing you flourish.

As a pastor, I do not speak for my community. I speak from it.

Civility is an affectation if it is not informed by some deeper quality of character.

When circumstances demand that we do something that is not natural to our temperament or talents, we must sometimes intentionally choose by discipline what we inherently lack by nature.