Life Quote by C. Christopher Smith

“But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin Luther King Jr. called “jumboism,” the sacrificial way of Jesus may be calling us to forsake the supersized life.” quote by C. Christopher Smith — Download Open image

““But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin Luther King Jr. called “jumboism,” the sacrificial way of Jesus may be calling us to forsake the supersized life.””

C. Christopher Smith

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