Guest billmc Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I thought it might be fun and encouraging to share some of our favorite quips and quotes here for discussion or just meditation/consideration. Here's one I heard today from Richard Rohr: "God comes to you disguised as your life." 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike 114 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 (edited) I rather like this from 'Finding God in a Tangled World'. The two lines have to be taken inseparably. No one is worthy of Jesus' holiness. No one is unworthy of Jesus' holiness. Edited July 20, 2011 by Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yvonne 47 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Amazing how just a few words can cause so much reflection. This is from Tomorrow's Catholic: "God works with what God has to work with." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
minsocal 51 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Woody Allen, " Hey listen — I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JosephM 0 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 These simple lyrics of a song were instrumental in triggering a positive transformation in my life. "You'll never know that its true til it happens to you" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest billmc Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 "So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live." — Rich Mullins Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Mac Dubh-sìthe 4 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 "Jesus and his disciples passed by a dog's carcass. The disciples said, 'How foul is his stench!' Jesus said, 'How white are his teeth!'" - Saying 127 in "The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature" edited and translated by Tarif Khalidi. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rennyo 2 Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 "God loves you at least as much as the person who loves you the most." The Linns, Good Goats Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest billmc Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 "Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die." - Tao Te Ching Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick the Nevermet 31 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.- Karl Barth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest billmc Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest billmc Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - Carl Jung Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick the Nevermet 31 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 "Test Everything. Hold on to the Good."- Paul 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest billmc Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 "Life is a love affair between the soul and the Divine." - Sufi quote 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glintofpewter 145 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 God is at home. We are in the far country. ~ Meister Eckhart Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yvonne 47 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Supposedly a real sign: On a church door: This is the gate of Heaven. Enter ye all by this door. (This door is kept locked because of the draft. Please use side entrance) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JenellYB 49 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Seen on tv news, on a sign in front of a Houston, Tx business: "Satan called...he wants his weather back." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
minsocal 51 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 From a church bulletin ... "For those of you who have little children and don't know it, we have an infant quiet room at the back of the sanctuary." 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick the Nevermet 31 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Faith begins with an exclamation: “What the #%&* was that?!”- Kim Fabricus 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glintofpewter 145 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Like the two golden birds perched in the same tree as friends, the ego and the Self exist in the same body. The former eats both the bad and good fruits of the tree of life while the latter does not discriminate. Mundaka Upanishad 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JenellYB 49 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 To take up the study of mysticism with thought to become a mystic is as for a man to take up women's studies with thought to becoming a woman. (not sure if I read that somewhere I can't recall, or if I made it up myself Jenell) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JenellYB 49 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 The greatest of all warriors is not he who wins over his enemies, but he who wins his enemies over. (another of those not sure if I read it somewhere in the distant past or made it up myself,) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JosephM 0 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Today as in most days, i am most pleased at my unlearning that true knowledge itself might be present. Joseph Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick the Nevermet 31 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 “[F]or theological interpretation of the Christ-event, description and not explanation remains the operative ideal... The attempt to describe in other words and concepts the Christ-event is a necessary task if it is to be grasped at all, but let such attempts proliferate, let them be held lightly, and let no exclusive claims be made for them." Paul DeHart, Trial of the Witness, describing the hermeneutics of theologian Hans Frei Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgeW 77 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Nick, I like that a lot, particularly the last sentence. George Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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