More quotations from Robert Farrar Capon… “Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a ubiquity of grace that overrides the subject of human works.” “Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten […]
The follow quotations are from Robert Farrar Capon… “We need good liturgies, and we need natural ones; we need a life neither patternless nor over patterned, if the city is to be built. And I think the root of it all is caring. Not that that will turn the trick all by itself, but that […]
“Everything Sad Is Untrue” by Daniel Nayeri Read it! Or listen to it! Read/listen to it because… It talks about sojourners/refugees, and it will put pressure on you to make decisions that are aligned with the emphasis and Spirit of Leviticus 19:9-10! It talks about bullying in school. It talks about bidets. It talks about […]
“Let us pause and drink to that. To a radically, perpetually unnecessary world; to the restoration of astonishment to the heart and mystery to the mind; to wine, because it is a gift we never expected; to mushroom and artichoke, for they are incredible legacies; to improbable acids and high alcohols, since we would hardly […]
“In Jesus, God has put up a “Gone Fishing” sign on the religion shop. He has done the whole job in Jesus once and for all and simply invited us to believe it – to trust the bizarre, unprovable proposition that in him, every last person on earth is already home free without a single […]
“The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly wisdom knows what distress and weakness and failure are, but it does […]
“I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.” ― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey Into Christian Faith “There is only one thing […]
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” “Do not dare not to dare.” “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different […]
“I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” – Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 10:16) E.G. David arose and went out of the cave, and David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to lies and deceive yourself? I have not sinned against […]