“To put it bluntly but also imploringly: we Christians need more silence in our services and liturgies. Just how this might be realized, just how we”
― Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
― Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
“Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can’t see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn’t give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.”
― Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way
― Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way
“The possibility of eternal life begins the day we are born, not the day we die.”
― Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way
― Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way
“If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this being look like? The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. We are dealing with somebody we made up. And if we made him up, then we are in control. And so in passage after passage, we find God reminding people that he is beyond and bigger and more.”
― Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
― Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
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