Peter Haas > Quotes

“Righteousness is not the reward of living rightly. It’s the unmerited gift that irresistibly results in right living (Titus 3:5).”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“We are all created as self-developing organisms. It’s never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God’s unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“Obedience is now just one of the fun ways we say thanks to Him while He drenches us with favor; it naturally flows from our lives. Christianity is not a process in which we earn love; it’s a process in which we reflect love.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God’s Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who’s most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, “Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?” If not, it doesn’t matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

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― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Although around 43 percent of Americans claim to go to church, only about 17 to 20.4 percent actually went to church last weekend.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Through the “eye of the heart,” we’re led inward by the Spirit, and in this interiority see and hear, taste and experience a “light higher than the mind”— that is to say, wisdom, revelation, and Divine encounter. Origen is a pillar of allegorical biblical interpretation in service of psychological and spiritual transformation in Christ. There are many others, including the modern examples of the two Thomases—Merton and Keating—both of whom have provided extensive models in their writings of spiritual interpretation that nurtures the contemplative Christian dimension.3”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“The Bible isn’t a list of requirements; rather, it’s a list of results after experiencing God’s love. Following God isn’t an action but a reaction. And if you have to painstakingly motivate yourself or others to serve God “because it’s the right thing to do,” you’ve already missed the very foundations of biblical Christianity.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“The “transfer” does not diminish Christ nor make us divine on our own, but it does “link” or “connect” us into the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, for he is the new Adam and the representative new human being through whom we receive new life. Like open-source code and cloud-computing, Jesus Christ is the cloud and the main server to whom we are reconnected by faith and spiritual surrender.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“Jay Michaelson, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Non-dual Judaism (Boston: Trumpeter, 2009).”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“In some ways, pastoring a church is like competing in an extreme sport where you run through a dense pack of grizzly bears every Sunday. On one hand, it’s a rush. On the other hand, you quickly become aware of just how hostile a church environment can be.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“a reaction to God’s kindness, not an action to earn it.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“We need to become painfully aware of how we’re obscuring God from those who need to connect with Him the most: the lost.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases