David Cornwell

“Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“Paul describes when he says, “Such were some of you.” But for Christ, they would have been worshippers of personified Lust and Hate, and of every crime. They would have lived for “bread and circus-shows.”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1: The Writings of the Fathers Down to 325 A.D.

“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.”
― Luke Timothy Johnson, Writings of New Testament 3rd Ed: Third Edition