804 quotes found
“[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluatewhet...”
“I wont desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I wont confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers tur...”
“If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvat...”
“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”
“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned done it. Gotten that war against reason and up...”
“Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.”
“Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.”
“Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.We will not float in weightlessness ...”
“The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the homosexuals, which would be amusing were it not so tragic. Familie...”
“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand,...”
“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)”
“As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)”
“One thing is needful”
“A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.”
“He is no fool who believes the man who knows everything.”
“There's a place for doctrine and dogma, and science and history and apologetics, but, these things are not Jesus - they are humanly manufactured attempts to make people think that having the right ...”
“In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.”
“The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism, with free healing brought directly to the ...”
“To love one another as He loves us, is the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is love that kills our outward mans ways; buries him in baptism; and causes our inward-man (named Jesus) to resurrect ...”
“Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is g...”
