Joachim Elsander

“The greatest Church Fathers, for instance, took it for granted that the creation narratives of Genesis could not be treated literally,”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“Let us then arise and live—arise even in the darkest moments of spiritual stupidity, when hope itself sees nothing to hope for. Let us go at once to the Life. Let us comfort ourselves in the thought of the Father and the Son.”
― George MacDonald, Consuming Fire: The Inexorable Power of God's Love: A Devotional Version of Unspoken Sermons

“You can do this. You are brave and wise. You are loved.”
― Tracy Holczer, The Secret Hum of a Daisy

“After all, one assumes that fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist materialists alike are aware that Christians believe God is the creator of every person; but presumably none of them would be so foolish as to imagine that this means each person is not also the product of a spermatozoon and ovum; surely they grasp that here God’s act of creation is understood as the whole event of nature and existence, not as a distinct causal agency that in some way rivals the natural process of conception. Somehow, though, even in the minds of some Christians, God has come to be understood not as the truly transcendent source and end of all contingent reality, who creates through “donating” being to a natural order that is complete in itself, but only as a kind of supreme mechanical cause located somewhere within the continuum of nature. Which is only to say that, here at the far end of modernity, the concept of God is often just as obscure to those who want to believe as to those who want not to. Ours is in many ways a particularly unsubtle age.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss