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“Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.”
― Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully

“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.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci, Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick

“We're in the presence of a good story when the flaw that shatters shalom is also the doorway to redemption... Whether it be our own flaw or the sin of others, God uses the raw material of sin to create the edifice of his redeemed glory.

The point cannot be overemphasized: your plight is also your redemption. The Bible assumes that its stories are also our story... We are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Their stories are a paradigm of our own. Each of us is called, redeemed, and exiled - again and again.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and needy, because how we treat them reveals our hearts, regardless of the rhetoric we employ to make ourselves sound just.”
― Randy S. Woodley

“Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“A denouement is not a complete or fully resolved ending but a satisfying closure to a story. [in French translates 'an untying, a relaxing of a knot of complexity']
Denouement is the rest that comes when all the disparate plot lines of a story, gnarled and taut, have been untied and an order has come about that brings a new moment of shalom.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“Shalom is the medicine I鈥檇 prescribe for Jerusalem鈥攁 deep, God-breathed indwelling of peace and prosperity and blessing. An end to the unrest and a sense of wholeness is what the Holy City needs. It鈥檚 what the Middle East needs. It鈥檚 what I need.”
― Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully

“The shattering [of shalom] moves us from a place of shalom to a place that is harsh and unrelenting. The shattering brings us a keen awareness that we are alone and in danger. We are on our own.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lover, and it separates us from Him and brings death as it wars against His will.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“Jesus, properly understood as shalom, coming into the world from the shalom community of the Trinity, is the intention of God鈥檚 once-and-for-all mission. That is, the mission of birthing and restoring shalom to the world is in Christ, by Christ, and for the honor of Christ.”
― Randy Woodley, Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity

“Justice is the state that exists when there is equity, balance, and harmony in relationships and in society. Injustice is the state that exists when unjust people do violence to peace and shalom and create inequity, imbalance, and dissonance.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

“Shalom is not a utopian destination; it is a constant journey.”
― Randy S. Woodley

“Shalom is communal, holistic, and tangible. There is no private or partial shalom. The whole community must have shalom or no one has shalom. As long as there are hungry people in a community that is well fed, there can be no shalom. . . . Shalom is not for the many, while a few suffer; nor is it for the few while many suffer. It must be available for everyone.”
― Randy S. Woodley

“God commands both individuals and the society in which they live to be generous and always take care of the poor. In such a community, shalom has a chance to thrive. In such a community, God will actually be glad to assign his name and dwell.”
― Randy S. Woodley

“(from chapter 3, "What Makes A Good Story?")

"Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“Shalom is shattered by sin, by the intrusion of a lie, a distortion of the truth that mars the pleasure of being naked, transparent, trusting and true.
... shattering occurs when our dignity os assaulted and death enters to divide and destroy.”
― Dan B. Allender, To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future

“Peace, shalom, salaam 鈥� to all 鈥� in our homes, in our streets, in our countries, on our world, and most importantly, in our hearts and minds 鈥� not just for one day of the year, or two, but for every day, and for every year, always.”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“It takes another decision- a daily decision- to rise above this moment. For shalom. For my God.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Shalom is meant to be both personal (emphasizing our relationships with others) and structural (replacing systems where shalom has been broken or which produce broken shalom, such as war-or greed-driven economic systems). In shalom, the old structures and systems are replaced with new structures and new systems.”
― Randy S. Woodley

“Paul鈥檚 mission was profoundly shaped by the way God called him and invited him to reject his life of violence to take on the yoke of peace. Paul became the voice of God to the Gentiles and all those in the wider community who had no place in the inheritance of Israel. Paul began to proclaim that God's narrative of grace, begun with Abraham and Sarah, was meant for all people. Paul's conversion was actually the reconversion of the community of shalom. The community was reminded to be different from other religious communities, and different from the powers and authorities of the world. The community did not repay violence with violence, but practiced peace instead.”
― C. Andrew Doyle, Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church

“In shalom, warring over turf, wealth, or national security are extinct practices. In shalom, family wealth is no longer the point of blessing because living out shalom offers an alternative way for people to view wealth.”
― Randy Woodley, Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity

“Shalom is a comprehensive expression of God's will for us in every situation we face.”
― Chip Ingram, I Choose Peace: How to Quiet Your Heart in an Anxious World

“Hanukkah Sonnet

Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah, let's light the menorah,
Let's wipe out all divide, even if some call it utopia.
Come one, come all, no matter the culture,
Let's stuff some latkes while we dreidel together.
Worry not about the candles burning low,
Fear not the darkness of hate and narrowness.
So long as we stand as bridges and not walls,
No darkness is match for our uplifting radiance.
The light of the festival doesn't come from candles,
The sweetness in the air doesn't come from treats.
The light and sweetness of these joyful festivities,
Rise from the loving streams of our heartbeats.
Let us burn bright as the gentle epitome of ahava.
Let us live life as a walking and talking menorah.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah, let's light the menorah, let's wipe out all divide, even if some call it utopia. Come one, come all, no matter the culture, let's stuff some latkes while we dreidel together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Let us burn bright as the gentle epitome of ahava. Let us live life as a walking and talking menorah.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The light of the festival doesn't come from candles,
The sweetness in the air doesn't come from treats.
The light and sweetness of these joyful festivities,
Rise from the loving streams of our heartbeats.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“You know why most menorahs nowadays have nine branches even though Hanukkah lasts eight days! It is to hold the ninth candle that sacrifices itself to light up the lives of those lamenting in darkness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Me. I can't be shaken because I'm God's. I like the idea of him shaking the earth to see what's left standing. And all that remains is shalom.”
― Nadine Brandes, Out of Time: The Complete Trilogy

“Our challenge is not to be perfect. Our challenge is to feel whole despite our imperfections.”
― Don Tassone

“Our challenge isn鈥檛 to be perfect but rather to feel whole despite our imperfections.”
― Don Tassone