“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
“For
me, it became hard to read the Bible and walk away as if I had just watched a
nice movie. Jesus never seemed to do anything normal.” – Shane Claiborne
“If I diminish you, I diminish myself.” – Desmond Tutu
“He who thinks he leads but has no followers, is only taking
a walk.” – John Maxwell
[unfortunately,] “the system works for those with the power
and influence to change the system.” [so] “they can’t hear the cry.” – Rob Bell
“It is not easy to challenge the reigning plausibility
structure. It is much easier to conform.” – Lesslie Newbigin
“It was the most religious who seemed to get the secret
message of Jesus the least, and the least religious who seemed to get it the
most.” – Brian McLaren
“Everybody should see kindness in your face, in your eyes,
in your smile, in your warm greeting.” – Mother Teresa
“The hope offered to believers is not that we will be a
peculiar elite group of people who will escape out of the world, leaving others
behind to experience the wrath of God. The hope is rather that by our
sacrificial participation in the ever-expanding kingdom, the whole creation
will be redeemed.” – Greg Boyd
“If there’s a legitimate
indictment of the Church today, it’s that we’re subcultural rather than
countercultural.” – Jay Howard
“‘Theology’ and ‘science’ never
exist in such a generalized, abstract sense, but always only in quite specific
social, historical, and intellectual contexts.” – J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
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