Christopher B. Hays > Quotes

“God’s purposed flourishing for the world will not be stopped by the simple fact that people are as they are. God again relents from righteous wrath and shows mercy.”
― Christopher B. Hays, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story

“been created as he was, and he’s never forgotten it. No one forgets when the church manifests the love and joy that God feels toward creation; nor do they forget when it doesn’t.”
― Christopher B. Hays, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story

“Rather than denying we mean harm and continuing to do harm, it may be better to say that we have been following statutes that are not good. As with the law of the sacrifice of the firstborn, the laws about sexuality in the Torah have done harm to children.”
― Christopher B. Hays, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story

“Even if we were mistaken in our vision, it is better to be wrong in love.”
― Christopher B. Hays, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story

“I can’t imagine what I would do if the God around whom I had built my life appeared to me and gave me a direct order to harm my child.”
― Christopher B. Hays, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story