College student Quote by Aaron Hartzler

“I’m not saying Jesus won’t come back; I’ve just decided I can’t keep hoping to be rescued from my life. Maybe it’s up to…

— Aaron Hartzler

“Will God allow me to be killed in a freak accident if I keep lying to my parents about music and movies?”

— Aaron Hartzler

“Dad knew this was the one thing he could do that would hurt me the most. He thinks this pain will somehow bring us…

— Aaron Hartzler

“Eventually, I realized that social justice, kindness, and honesty didn’t have to come from the theology in which I’d been raised. In fact, not…

— Aaron Hartzler

“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.”

— Aaron Hartzler

“In a flash, the version of myself so carefully constructed for Mom’s and Dad’s eyes crumbles all around me. I have let them see…

— Aaron Hartzler

“We try to hold on to the things we think will keep us safe and maintain that place we can point to an say,…

— Aaron Hartzler

“Aaron, I love you so much, and I know how much this means to you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth…

— Aaron Hartzler

“I might’ve been able to fool other people into thinking I believed, but the God I was raised with knew my every thought, so…

— Aaron Hartzler

“A pervasive misconception about sexual orientation doggedly clings to the conversation about being LGBT in our current culture: that one’s sexual orientation is defined…

— Aaron Hartzler

“I feel like I belong, sitting here next to Papa. This is what men do together—watch wrestling and make things from string.”

— Aaron Hartzler

“Praying in restaurants is all about other people seeing us do it. It’s our faith on offense. One more way we can prove we’re…

— Aaron Hartzler