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“The Christian right, which trumpets the theme of family values, damns contemporary culture for undermining older traditions. Yet many individuals from this camp are not concerned first and foremost...”
“As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The a...”
“Love only fails when we fail to love.”
“Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.”
“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or disp...”
“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.”
“The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are plannin...”
“Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of ...”
“The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.”
“I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting ...”
“At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client's back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion...”
“As I ponder my pilgrims progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didnt make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasnt the one driving.”
“Jesuss use of the phrasing a new commandment is frequently scanted in light of its implicit ramifications. Because Jesus at the Last Supper has executed the new covenant with his disciples, the Gre...”
“Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt ...”
“Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where ju...”
“We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country...”
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one ...”
“It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.”
“Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without ...”
“Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has f...”
