“It would be easy if we all had visions, or if we all believed in those who did. My own feeling is that faith was never meant to be easy.”
As a clergyman I know “faith was never meant to be easy.” If faith is a luxury liner - it is not faith! Faith is a lifeboat, always being swamped by our stormy seas!
“Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog. Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“At the heart of the very good news of the gospel is the reversal of the Fall. With that reversal, Jesus’s death and resurrection paved the way for patriarchy to be crushed. This made way for the full acknowledgment of the image of God in women and men.”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
“I think the human heart’s a mystery only God knows the answer to.”
― The Devil's Bed
― The Devil's Bed
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
― Fox Creek
― Fox Creek
“This is the promise of Genesis 1. The darkness is limited by the light. Suffering is not in perpetuity. The light may take generations to come, but it will come. There is always hope.”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
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