Faith is about what we hold as a substantial reality in our minds associated to an emotion in our hearts that invariably leads to a particular outcome in our behavior.
-Al Larson
Category Archives: Quotes
11.28.15–>”The Purpose of Theology”
The thing to keep in mind is our goal: transformation in Christ, union with Christ…All true theology helps us toward that end. Anything that doesn’t is better avoided, no matter how clever.
-Frederica Mathewes-Green
Or as my friend Kristin once said: “If it doesn’t throw you into the arms of Jesus, then throw it out!”
11.25.15–>”Grace”
Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
-Robert Farrar Capon
11.23.15–>”Priest”
To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
-Barbara Brown Taylor
11.21.15–>”First Real Taste”
She did not know or ask about any of my faults, no prodding into sins of commission or omission of which I may have been guilty. She just hugged me.
It was for me, my first real taste of God’s unconditional love on earth in human form.
-Earl Henslin
11.20.15–>”Religion”
Religion is fundamentally a sense of awe.
-Rudolph Otto
11.19.15–>”Transmitting Pain”
If you do not transform your pain, you will most assuredly transmit it.
-Richard Rohr
11.17.15–>”Scripture is not God”
Scripture is not God, but a privileged place to meet God. However, one must pay attention to Scripture in the same way that in the contemplation of nature one has to pay attention to trees or sunsets or mountains. One must have a contemplative attitude toward Scripture, let the Scriptures be themselves, listen to them, and ask that God reveal self while we are listening.
-William Barry & William Connolly
11.16.15–>Who to Listen to”
Listen to the person who listens to God.
-A.W. Tozer
11.15.15–>”Renouncing Ourselves”
Child, you cannot have perfect freedom unless you wholly renounce yourself.
All those who are ruled by self-interest and self-love are chained by their own desires. They crave possessions; they are inquisitive and unsettled, always seeking their own ease and not the things of Jesus Christ; they are often planning and devising things that will not last.
For all that is not of God will come to nothing.
Take this brief and perfect word: Forsake all and you will find all, forsake desires of the flesh and you will find great rest.
Imprint well on your mind what I have said, for when you have put it in practice, you will fully understand.
Lord, this is not the work of one day, nor is it child’s play! Rather, in this short word is included the entire perfection of the Religious.
-Thomas a Kempis