I am ashamed of the bumper stickers, the t - shirts, the logos, the fog machines, the light shows, the celebrities, and that paralyzing fear of Silence we're so bound and determined to avoid that we keep shouting and shouting and shouting at one another till our words are just clanging cymbals echoing off church walls. (rachelheldevans.com)
Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging cymbals unless our lives have inspired the world to ask. (rachelheldevans.com)
They are just clanging cymbals, distracting us from the gentle whisper that affirms what we already know, deep inside: We are known. (rachelheldevans.com)