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The ability of the body of Christ to change — to grow fins when it needs to swim and wings when it needs to fly — has preserved it for over two thousand years, despite countless predictions of its imminent demise.
“Prayer can be a rhythm that helps us make sense in times of senselessness, not offering solutions, but speaking to and from the mystery of humanity.”
― Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
― Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
“My friends wanted Germany purified. They wanted it purified of the politicians, of all the politicians. They wanted a representative leader in place of unrepresentative representatives.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction,” wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
“Jewish law might forbid befriending Gentiles, but God’s law never did. Peter narrowed God’s plan until it encompassed his tribe alone. Of course, we do the same thing when we think that God is for my tribe, my country, my people, and my party.”
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
“Greenspan calls this “spiritual bypassing”—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
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