February 2012
52 posts
“The Holy Spirit is the vital power that bestows free mercy on theology and on...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
“Almighty God, by the power of your Holy Spirit open our eyes, ears, hearts, and...”
– The Upper Room - A guide to prayer for ministers and other servants
“Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like tides of an...”
– Flannery O’Connor
“Christian witness must always be forged anew in the fire of the question of...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
“Theology itself is a word, a human response; yet what makes it theology is not...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
“Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it...”
– St. John Chrysostom
(via tenthousandangels)
““Simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the...”
– Carl Gustav Jung, “Psychotherapists or the Clergy,” In The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). Vol 11, pp. 339-41, paras. 519, 520, 523. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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“Just as his oneness consists in the unity of his life as Father, Son, and Holy...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology (via invisibleforeigner)
“A proper Christian understanding of the creation narratives will follow the lead...”
– Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam (via invisibleforeigner)
“The Resurrection teaches us a new way of seeing; it uncovers the connection...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth (via invisibleforeigner)
“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via danielle-lily)
“Can a person have bad theology and be a Christian?
Has your theology ever been...”
– Donald Miller (via firstbreath90)
“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There...”
– Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (p. 237)
“We have reached a hastier and superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in...”
– Anais Nin
(via ofthefloatingworld)
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that...”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
(via happyacres)
“We all know about the episode in Turin where Nietzsche’s compassion for a horse...”
– Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind (1993)
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“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I read not that ever any man did give unto Christ so much as one groat, but the...”
– John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. (via wesleyhill)
“Don’t give in to discouragement……. If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride...”
– - Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
(via kindnessalwaysmatters)
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“The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via invisibleforeigner)
“It is exceedingly strange that any follower of Jesus Christ should ever have...”
– John Stott (via unafraidunashamed)
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“She tells the story of Jason, a fourteen year old boy with profound intellectual...”
– Stanley Hauerwas Do Human Rights have a foundation in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Our church has been fighting during these years only for its self-preservation,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(reference)
“Christologies usually offered an image of Christ as a sublime abstraction....”
– Jon Sobrino - Jesus The Liberator: A Historical-Theological View (via jomcarlson)
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“It seems to me that, as a contemplative, I do not need to lock myself into...”
– Thomas Merton, William Shannon, ed., The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979)
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via invisibleforeigner)
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Wishes of youth and the winds of war - I was a... →
For the last week or so I have been reading Ranulph Fiennes amazing book ‘My Heroes’.
It tells the stories of various brave and courageous women and men who did extraordinary things in face of great danger and hardship. The story that most moved me was that of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina - the man who saved just over a thousand Rwandans from the genocide that ripped that nation in...
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid...”
– Sydney Smith, Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding (via triadic)
“For Jesus, ‘kingdom’ carried the weight of his entire eschatology, and he...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel (via invisibleforeigner)
“It is as tragic as it is ridiculous to see Christians today giving up this...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible (via invisibleforeigner)
“The paradox of the human condition is that nothing is so contrary to us as the...”
– Frithjof Schuon, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom. Courtesy of One Cosmos and Whiskey River.
(via crashinglybeautiful)
“For a little context of what we are doing and why we are doing what we are...”
– What is a Spiritual Discipline? « The Twenty Pieces Project (via mshedden)
“Our lives are lived in relationship to words, written and spoken, sacred and...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (via invisibleforeigner)