Jeff Gala

“The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the gospel.”
― Thomas Howard

“Because if you don’t know what your ultimate vision is, it’s impossible to persevere through the drudgery and difficulty of the many steps that need to be taken along the path.”
― Rainn Wilson, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

“When spirituality becomes spiritualization, life in the body becomes carnality. When ministers and priests live their ministry mostly in their heads and relate to the Gospel as a set of valuable ideas to be announced, the body quickly takes revenge by screaming loudly for affection and intimacy. Christian leaders are called to live the Incarnation, that is, to live in the body, not only in their own bodies but also in the corporate body of the community, and to discover there the presence of the Holy Spirit.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership