Here are some more quotes that have impacted me along the journey...
“The message of Christ is not Christianity. The message of Christ is Christ.”
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Gary Amirault
“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”
-William Barclay
“It has been said many times that, after transformation, you seldom have the feeling you have found anything. It feels much more like Someone found you!”
-Richard Rohr
”To accept the fact that you are forgiven and chosen from eternity no matter what you do or don’t do goes against all we know of justice and how things work. But it is good news for those who know they have nothing to bring to the altar…not even good motives or more resolve to improve or even sorrow. To be forgiven with no strings attached is scandalous.”
-Comment from a blogger named Scott on internetmonk.com
"The Bible seems to always be saying that this journey [life] is indeed a journey, a journey always initiated and concluded by God, and a journey of transformation much more than mere education about anything."
-Richard Rohr
“It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.”
-William Barclay
“Good theology always protects God’s total freedom, and does not demand that God follow our rules.”
-Richard Rohr
“No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.”
-Phillip Yancey
“You can tell you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
-Anne Lamott
"...I say Christianity was always intended by Jesus to be a minority position and always will be. He wasn't dividing the world into those God loved and those God didn't love. Jesus was creating a remnant who were usable by God - to keep the whole world from its violent path toward self-destruction. Jesus is loving and drawing all of us into God."
-Richard Rohr
Thoughts?
