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Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

Approximate author period: c. 2000 AD · contemporary

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Rachel Held Evans
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Approximate author period: c. 2000 AD · contemporary
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Rachel Held Evans, based on documented lifetime 1981 to 2019. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7279267 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7279267 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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