13 quotes found
“Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.”
“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”
“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,”
“Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.”
“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”
“Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.”
“A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conq...”
“The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God i...”
“Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the truth with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believ...”
“There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a...”
“What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.”
“In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distincti...”
“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object God. Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in lo...”
