“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.” MenGivingSelfSeemsSufferingImaginationGreaterDangerousComfortGiving UpFemaleCharityCopHierarchyLooking DownPerpetuating Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays
“Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.” WorldNeedsSufferingSeaDangerousThis WorldComfortGoodsTemporaryWadeGod Provides Author:Charles Spurgeon
“I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.” IfsWantInterestingDangerousComfortSafeZoneComfort ZoneTested Author:Nicole Kidman