“The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word of God and an equally passionate rejection of worldly authority in favour of a divinely sanctioned life, scarcely registered on the consciousness of England.”
― God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
― God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
“A daughter is a woman who remains internally dependent, who does not shape her identity and direction as a woman, but tends to accept the identity and direction projected onto her. She tends to become the image of woman that the cultural father idealizes.”
― The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
― The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
“Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Trinity. It wasn’t until the third century that Tertullian (150–240), sometimes called “the founder of Western Christian theology,” first coined this word Trinity from the Latin trinitas, meaning “triad,” or trinus, meaning “threefold.” Again, the word itself is not found in the Bible; it took history awhile to find a proper word for this always-elusive “rubber band.”
― The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
― The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
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