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Jacob Sweeney
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“Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’ “4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, “the will to be oneself.”
― The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives
― The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives
“The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.”
― The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
― The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
“Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.”
― Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
― Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
“In Augustine's view, "It is life outside the Christian community which fails to be truly public, authentically political. The opposition is not between public and private, church and world, but between political virtue and political vice. At the end of the day, it is the secular order that will be shown to be `atomistic' in its foundations."" A society that has no place for God will disintegrate into an amoral aggregate of competing, self-aggrandizing interests that are destructive of the commonweal. In the end it will be enveloped in darkness.”
― The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
― The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
“Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble. —HENRI NOUWEN”
― Jesus Outside the Lines: A Way Forward for Those Who Are Tired of Taking Sides
― Jesus Outside the Lines: A Way Forward for Those Who Are Tired of Taking Sides
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