Amy Bell

“Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, “Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

“In the “lynching era,” between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.”
― James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“What is clear, no matter your theological persuasion, is that Jesus wants folks to eat together in his name. Jesus wants his followers to eat bread, drink wine, and feed others and, in that way, to participate in the restoration of a deeply broken creation.”
― Kendall Vanderslice, We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God

“Jesuit, Joseph de Guibert, a French Jesuit, offers a charming analogy first made in the Middle Ages. A spirituality is like a bridge. Every bridge does pretty much the same thing—gets you from one place to another, sometimes over perilous ground, or a river, or great heights. But they do so in different ways. They might be built of rope, wood, bricks, stone or steel; as arches, cantilevers, or suspension bridges. “Hence,” writes Father de Guibert, “there will be a series of different types, with each one having its advantages and disadvantages. Each type is adaptable to given terrains and contours and not to others; yet each one in its own way achieves the common purpose—to provide a passage by means of an organic, balanced combination of materials and shapes.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life