March 2012
69 posts
“When we listen to stories of terrible pain and know we can’t do anything...”
– Jean Vanier
February 2012
69 posts
“Faith cannot stand alone: it is always in this and that action...”
–
Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 33.
(via hargaden)
“I don’t know what I think of that. Because I think, actually, one of the things...”
– Ira Glass, in response to Kurt Braunohler’s comment, “I do have a theory now. I do have a theory about if I do get married in the future. What I think I would want to do is have an agreement that at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the...
“God gives us many gifts, but God is He Who gives God,”
– Augustine
WatchThe Threat Of Resurrection (by The Work Of The People)
“‘God with us’ is the centre of the Christian message - and always in...”
– Karl Barth, CD IV.1, 5.Die Evangelischen Theologen: Briefly introducing…
“If I could sum up my feelings right at the moment into one word it would be...”
– a guy named Tree, here, as quoted in this book (via wesleyhill)
“It is exceedingly strange that any follower of Jesus Christ should ever have...”
– John Stott (via unafraidunashamed)
“One of the tendencies of our age is to use the suffering of children to...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“What I like to tell people is that the things that you get fired for when you’re...”
– Francis Ford Coppola Wonderful Advice for Risk Takers « Faith Improvised
“A dead person can only be raised, *resurrected*, and grave sin can only be...”
–
Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 24.
(via hargaden)
“Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day …
This day — a gift from you.
This...”
– Walter Brueggemann, “Marked by Ashes” from Prayers for a Privileged People (via catechumenate)
“I lost all feeling of my own identity. I reflected on the desolation of...”
– Dorothy Day
The Long Loneliness
“are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even...”
– Neil Postman
“Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost...”
– Collect for Ash Wednesday
“1 God
with a 5 Act story
Act 1 begins with nothing
and then Creation
the...”
– Andy Goodlliff
““The community is confronted and created by the Word of God. It is the...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
“Piper’s Christ is a raceless God-man, focused intently on a violent sacrifice...”
– Brian Bantum, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – A Review
“When we take seriously the life of Christ and the lives of Christians of...”
– Brian Bantum, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – A Review
“What then does being poor mean? I believe that a good definition does not exist;...”
– Gustavo Gutierrez Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas, pg. 72
“I say mystery is the only certainty
That embracing nothingness
as hard as you...”
– Elegy for Christopher Hitchens, Whom I Only Met Twice By Mary Karr
“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver (via susannathinks)
“I don’t have anything to say. I feel all out of words inside. I give her the...”
– Raymond Carver, “Gazebo,” in Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (New York: The Library of America, 2009), 237. (via chary)
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
“Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked,...”
– John 9:1-5, The Message Transforming Corrupted Assumptions in John 9 « Faith Improvised
“Love all of God’s creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), 319.
(via chary)
“Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing...”
– Gloria Anzaldúa (via susannathinks)
“The upshot of all of this is that theological ethics should not in any way try...”
– Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 9-10. (via hargaden)
“OK. Historically the stuff that’s sort of rung my cherries: Socrates’ funeral...”
– David Foster Wallace on some of his favorite books.
Slate (via chary)
“Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic,...”
– C.S. Lewis, on prayer. (via thebeeble)
“In God we live, move, and exist.”
– Acts 17:28a, Common English Bible
“The effect of beauty, therefore, is good to the degree that, through its...”
– W. H. Auden, “Making, Knowing, and Judging” (in The Dyer’s Hand)
“And the Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is...”
– Tertullian (via shneevon)
“In short, John Piper is not helping the cause of either orthodox theology or...”
– Ben Witherington, John Piper on Men in Ministry, and the Masculinity of Christianity
“The movie ‘The Tree of Life’ makes clear despite all the beauty in this world,...”
– Ben Witherington Good Grief— The Way of Grace « The Bible and Culture
“Be sure to begin and end precisely at the time appointed. Sing no hymn of your...”
– John Wesley’s Advice on Preaching « Euangelion
“‘Writing means revealing onesself to excess … This is why one can never be alone...”
– Franz Kafka via Jason
“After I wrote “The Falling Man” in 2003, I got a call from a friend...”
– Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man, by Tom Junod - Esquire