Nate

“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.”
― Hans W Frei, Reading Faithfully, Volume 2: Writings from the Archives: Frei’s Theological Background

“We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“evangelical and liberal are labels that inhibit rather than illumine the living nature of the gospel.”
― James K. Wellman Jr., Rob Bell and a New American Christianity