“From nursery school onward we are taught how to succeed in the world of ungrace. The early bird gets the worm. No pain, No gain. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Demand your rights. You get what you pay for. I know these rules well because I live in them. I work for what I earn; I like to win; I insist on my right. I want people to get what they deserve – nothing more, nothing less.” Philip Yancey
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” – David Allan Coe
“The years teach much the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to our lives, but not life to our years. We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. These days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It’s a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the storeroom.” – Norris Peters
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – e.e. Cummings Many of us walking the streets […]
“American Culture fosters and sustains a functional Trinitarian god of consumerism, hedonism and nationalism. Made in this image and likeness of such a god, we are committed to lives of possessiveness, pleasure and domination.” – John Kavanaugh We are facing some revolutionary times in the world right now. There is an atmosphere of assessment and […]
“The building fund, pew fund, and organ fund lose their importance when you encounter hungry people daily. Those who have put in a year or more living with families in pain, people on the street, and victims of injustice, quickly lose respect for the church. Young adults are turning away from a modern church that […]
“When you are faithful in silent meditation… you will slowly experience yourself in a deeper way. Because in this useless hour in which you do nothing “important” or urgent you have to come to terms with your basic powerlessness, you have to feel your fundamental inability to solve your or others problems or to change […]
“People have always misunderstood God’s mission. For it is always to call people out from a land of bondage into a land of freedom. To help people escape from their won forms of slavery; to help his people exodus into a land he promised them.” – J. M. Doss As we contemplate the will of […]
“The truth shall set you free.” The words of Christ to those who believe in Him to understand what it is to be his disciple. These days the truth seems harder and harder to find.
