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“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.”
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
― 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.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“Fear brings out the basest instincts,” writes British political scientist Sue Goss, “and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation.”16”
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
“The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the “decline” of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.”
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
― 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.”
― Honest to God
― Honest to God
Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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