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“One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of a pure regard for truth,” wrote French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil. “Christ likes for us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
“It is easy to follow a generic God because you can fill the term God with any presupposition you please; it is difficult to follow Jesus, because then you have to take seriously his teachings on discipleship, on what exactly following him entails.”
― The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus
― The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus
“The Creator carefully designed humans and animals with two primary needs: to draw nutrition and energy from food in order to sustain life and to find companionship in sharing life with others. The only thing God called “not good” in the initial act of creation was a human being alone. And because God created the world out of an overflow of delight, these most basic needs are fulfilled in the joyous act of commensality—eating together.”
― We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God
― We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God
“Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, “Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.”
― Common Prayer Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
― Common Prayer Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
“And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than “going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly.” It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, “building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side.” The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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