Mike Young

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. —John F. Kennedy”
― Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution

“Fear brings out the basest instincts,” writes British political scientist Sue Goss, “and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation.”16”
― Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution

“Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid of it, we have had a hand in that. And if we made a mess, we can clean it up and do better. We are what we make.”
― Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution

“when our inner selves convert distinctions into a perceived right to diminish others, we are not on a holy path. We are submitting to the mighty enticements of the third temptation, and we are serving the tempter. God, whom we seek and serve, does not devalue our differences. God holds us all as equally beloved.”
― Alexander John Shaia, Heart and Mind: The Four-Gospel Journey for Radical Transformation