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Amy Bell
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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
“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.”
― 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: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
― Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
“We are not actually trusting God at that moment. We are trusting ourselves and disguising it as trust in God. Holding our thoughts with an open hand, however, is a way of communing with God—like an offering to God, incomplete as it may be. This book is about thinking differently about faith, a faith that is not so much defined by what we believe but in whom we trust. In fact, in this book I argue that we have misunderstood faith as a what word rather than a who word—as primarily beliefs about rather than primarily as trust in.”
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
“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.”
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
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