Scott Newman

“Moreover, for me the idea that hope teaches us a language — indeed, is a language — in which we can articulate our deepest longings for a life of human flourishing and fulfillment both as God’s gift and as our right as children of God, that can lift us out of the depths of despair, empower us to find the liberating and hope-giving God, who “makes a way out of no way,” as the spiritual says, drawing us into the vast expanse of our wider imaginings of freedom and joy, is singularly inspirational.”
― Allan Aubrey Boesak, Dare We Speak of Hope?: Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics

“Contrary to what many might think, cynicism does not make unbelievers of us. Nor does it make independent thinkers of us. Rather, it makes us believers only of “what we can see,” that which can be conjured up by the powers of domination, held up us eternal, self-evident truths. It makes us believers in the myths on which those powers depend. Cynicism does not make us more mature; it makes us foolish and apathetic. There is nothing unreal about injustice, indignity, and oppression, and there is nothing naïve about justice, dignity, and equality and the struggle for a better world.”
― Allan Aubrey Boesak, Dare We Speak of Hope?: Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished.”
― Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom