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On Calvary Jesus puts on display the beauty of God’s decision to suffer for his enemies—and at the hands of his enemies—rather than use his omnipotent power to violently defeat them.
“My memories of him, though few, are mostly pleasant, but memories of people you hardly know are often permitted a kind of pleasantness in their absence. It’s those who stay who are judged the harshest, simply by virtue of being around to be judged.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Whenever I listened to his friends speak about issues like prison reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, in the simultaneously intelligent but utterly vacuous way of people who think it’s important simply to weigh in, to have an opinion, I would bristle. I would think, What is the point of all this talk? What problems do we solve by identifying problems, circling them?”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“But Jesus does not say, “Blessed are those who live righteously and maintain a righteous lifestyle.” Rather he affirms, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness.” The statement presupposes that righteousness is something the faithful continuously strive after. The blessed are not those who arrive but those who continue, at whatever cost, in their pilgrimage toward a more perfect righteousness. The constant, relentless drive toward righteousness characterizes the blessed.”
― Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
― Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Anabapt-ish Theology Book Club
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