Mike Young

“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

“that Christianity should be equated in the public mind, inside as well as outside the Church, with ‘organized religion’ merely shows how far we have departed from the New Testament. For the last thing the Church exists to be is an organization for the religious. Its charter is to be the servant of the world.”
― John A. T. Robinson, Honest to God

“of all bad motives none may be worse or more hopeless than fear. Nobody, I think, has ever done good work because of fear. Good work is done by knowing how and by love. Love requires faith, courage, patience, and steadiness, none of which can come from fear.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings

“The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith