Bill Hughes

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“It takes a profound conversion to accept the belief that God is tender and loves us just as we are, not in spite of our sins and faults, but with them. God does not condone or sanction evil, but he does not withhold his love because there is evil in us. The key to this understanding is the way we feel about ourselves. We cannot even stand or accept love from another human being when we do not love ourselves, much less believe or accept that God could possibly love us.6”
― Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred

“The optimism of the early 1990s died on the killing fields of Kosovo, in the ruins of the World Trade Center and in the valleys of Afghanistan.”
― N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.