Shane Hipps > Quotes

“Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.”
― Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

“Truth without love, isn't.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“The lesson here is an important one. Love has no opposite. No force in the universe rivals it.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“As we grow, the question we learn to ask moves from What is right or wrong? to What does Love require?”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“Some, in an effort to protect and preserve the gospel message, have become like the guards in that museum, fueled by fear that it could be damaged or stolen if they are not vigilant in their watch. They have mistaken the good news for an ancient artifact that needs to be protected. But that is not its nature. This kingdom is a lot more like a tree. God is looking for gardeners, not guards. A guard is trained in a defensive stance of fear and suspicion. A gardener is motivated by love and creativity.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“The possibility of eternal life begins the day we are born, not the day we die.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can’t see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn’t give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“We might say blessed are the flexible for they won’t get bent out of shape.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“The radio returned our culture to the experience of the tribal campfire with its shared stories, songs, and banter.”
― Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

“If a twenty-year-old is frightened of stoves in the same way he was as a two-year-old, we have a problem.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“Reading.... is brain protein - it demands concentration and sustained neural energy.”
― Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

“image culture dramatically shapes the way we think. It also determines what we think about. Images are not well suited to articulate arguments, categories, or abstractions. They are far better suited for presenting impressions and experiences.”
― Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

“If we are to access the Living Water Jesus promised, ultimately Love must become the only thing that governs behavior, not fear.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“Just because Christianity claims Jesus as its own does not mean that Jesus claims Christianity as his own. Christ does not bind himself to a religion, any more than wind binds itself to a sail.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“You’ll know you’ve shed your own old beliefs at the right time when you are still able to appreciate them.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“...written words stimulate and liberate the imagination. Images, on the other hand, usually captivate the imagination.”
― Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

“Morse's invention dramatically altered the way we relate to information by breaking, for the first time,, the historic connection between communication and transportation.”
― Shane Hipps

“An indication you have shed restraint too soon is when you lose all discipline. Or if you feel compelled to force everyone to shed their swaddles as you have done. These are forms of squirming and squawking, and they are indications that you are rebelling rather than growing.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way

“Our joy will share the fate of the thing we bind it to.”
― Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way