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    James Merritt
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    Long before we were born, God was overseeing our future as well. We didn’t choose our ancestors; God did. God designates our identity, as he did with Jesus, so that we might fit into his plan for the ...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely ha...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    The biblical fondness for genealogical lists is not dull obscurantism, it is an insistence on the primacy and continuity of people. Each name is a burnished link connecting God’s promises to his fulfi...

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    Thomas Babington Macaulay
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    I have not the smallest doubt that, if we and our ancestors had, during the last three centuries, worked just as hard on the Sunday as on the week days, we should have been at this moment a poorer peo...

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    Rachel Held Evans
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    But sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird. There’s no sense in sending her through the makeover montage of the chick flick when she’ll always be the strange, awk...

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    Bernard of Clairvaux
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    We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, bu...

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    E. Randolph Richards and Richard James
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    Ancients married in order to have children, to cement alliances, and to gain strategic relationships.

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    Malcolm Gladwell
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    Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that...

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    Bernard of Chartres
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    Deuteronomy 34:1-12, 1 Kings 2:1-4 , Nehemiah 8:1-8 , Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Timothy 1:5, Psalm 78:2-4
    If we see more and further than they, it is not because of our own clear eyes or tall bodies, but because we are raised on high by their gigantic stature.

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    Malcolm Gladwell
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    People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all themselves. But in fact they are invariably the benefici...

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    Martin Luther
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    Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    Man in offering sacrifices avowed that God was the first principle of the world’s creation and the last end to whom all must be related.

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    Marcus Garvey
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    A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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    Miguel de Cervantes
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    Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

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    John Donne
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    We think that Paradise and Calvary, Christ’s Cross and Adam’s Tree, stood in one place; Look Lord and find both Adams met in me; As the first Adam’s sweat surrounds my face, May the last Adam’s blood ...

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    James Merritt
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    Matthew 1:, Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 11:12, Ruth 1:4, Joshua 2:
    Through Jesus’s family tree, God puts his grace on display. God is reminding us that he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves: pick up broken pieces and put them together, take broken lives an...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with t...

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    Kelley Nikondeha
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    In Scripture, adoption meddles with genealogies, subverts oppressive empires, secures imperial inheritances, and opens new possibilities for who can be family.

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    Elizabeth Perkins
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    Hebrews 13:16, Matthew 5:6, Romans 12:1, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 82:3-4
    We the people of this new generation highly resolve that those who sacrificed before us shall not have sacrificed in vain. Let justice roll on.

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    Randy Alcorn
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    The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history…the unifying testimony of the human heart through history is belief in life after death. Anthropological ev...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Deuteronomy 6:12, Psalm 77:11, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 103:2
    Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between the past, present, and future ultimately meaningless: to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that s...

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    Vernon Kane
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    We all came from dust and to dust we shall return. Even the greatest and the richest people of this generation will be soon forgotten. Let us focus completely on God almighty.

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Home represents humanity’s most visceral ache—and our oldest desire.

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Genesis 3:15, Romans 5:18-19, Ephesians 1:5, Luke 15:11-32, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Genesis 22:8, Matthew 4:1-11
    The hope is held out [in Genesis] that one day the Son would be a second Adam, born to answer the first. . . . And this second Adam would give us a second family to belong to—God’s.

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    Umberto Eco
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    “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
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    “Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.”

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    Mark Scandrette
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    In ancient cultures, people knew how to mourn. They tore their clothes. They poured ashes on their heads. They sat in the dirt and raised their voices in lament.

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    Wendell Berry
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    Returning from the wilderness [a man] becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forebears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his succes...

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    Marilynne Robinson
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    “You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual i...

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    Pericles
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    What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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