Quotes

[tulc]

Sometimes in an effort to remind people of the cost of the cross, we
withhold grace until we are sure they understand their sin. But it is in
giving of our grace that we remind people that they need to go to Jesus to
find their own. People understand their sin without our help. It’s grace
they need help in understanding.
-Shawn Zimmerman

 

[tulc]

The hijacking of the concept of morality began, of course, when we reduced
Scripture to formula and a love story to theology, and finally morality to
rules. It is a very different thing to break a rule than it is to cheat on a
Lover.”
-Donald Miller (In Search of God Knows What)

 

[tulc]

“The mind of a Pharisee thinks truth is more important than love
but Jesus showed us that love is the most important part of truth.”
-Don Francisco

 

[tulc]

"You should realize that the Bible neither describes nor promotes the local
church as we know it today. The local church many have come to cherish—the
services, offices, programs, buildings, ceremonies—is neither biblical or
unbiblical. It is abiblical—that is, such an organization is not addressed
in the Bible.”
-George Barna

 

[Drwhat]

Shawn Zimmerman clearly hasn't a clue what grace fully entails.

 

[tulc]

“I have concluded at this point that the most dangerous enemy
of Jesus-brand community is viewing community as an ideal to be achieved
rather than as a gift to be received."
-Ken Wilson

 

[tulc]

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one
with whom you have wept
Gibron

 

[tulc]

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much
knowledge that is idle.
-Gibron

 

[tulc]

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each
other.
-Mother Theresa

 

[tulc]

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a
grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in
winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
-Clarence W. Hall

 

[tulc]

"Let Charity be your hallmark and model for all you do,
if it is not loving, don't do it, if it is loving,
let nothing stop you from doing whatever is needed!"
-St. John Neumann

 

[tulc]

He who hath heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
-St. Ignatius of Loyola

 

[tulc]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives
means the most to us, we often find that it is those who,
instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have
chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a
gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with
us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us
in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the
reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
-Henri Nouwen

 

[tulc]

If I profess with the loudest voice
and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except
precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that
moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be
professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the
soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefields besides, is
mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
-Martin Luther

 

[tulc]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-C.S. Lewis

 

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"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-Mother Theresa

 

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If everyone were holy and handsome, it would be easy to see Christ in them.
-Dorothy Day

 

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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
-Charles Williams

 

[Sitswithamouse]

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1931


If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe -aimed rather low and settled for very little.
-George Carlin

 

[tulc]

The soul's profit, then, consists not in thinking much, but in loving much.
-Teresa of Ávila