Darryl Buckle

“The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“To this day the vision of the world which comes most naturally to me is one in which “we two” or “we few” (and in a sense “we happy few”) stand together against something stronger and larger.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it…). They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics