Glen Grunau

“I do it for the relationships. I like to spend my time with people who are trying to make the world a fairer, kinder place. I’ve been in groups like this since college, and they have made me happy.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

“Forgiveness becomes central to Jesus’ teaching, because to receive reality is always to “bear it,” to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.

Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God’s goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source.”
― Richard Rohr

“Too many people only dream at night. I like to dream during the day.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

“when people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from “me” to “we,” the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media coverage tends to focus on one person and doesn’t point out that the heroine of a story has the support of a small group behind her.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture