No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948 )
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Mahatma Gandhi
Posted in Culture, Exclusivity on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Elbert Hubbard
Posted in Exclusivity, Heaven, Hell on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A good man in an exclusive heaven would be in hell. (Elbert Hubbard, American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
Susan Schaefer
Posted in Autonomy, Culture, Freedom, Inclusivity, Individualism on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If Americans define freedom as autonomy and mobility, Europeans concentrate on inclusivity. They feel free only when they see that others in their communities are free, too. (Susan Schaefer)
Lionel Blue
Posted in Exclusivity, Skepticism on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. (Lionel Blue, a British Reform Rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first openly gay British rabbi)
Thomas Merton
Posted in Belief, Faith, Searching, Skepticism on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely [...]
Mikhail Bakunin
Posted in Church, Identity, Imagination, Searching, Skepticism on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. (Mikhail Bakunin)
Thomas Merton
Posted in Belief, Faith on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every faith must face what William James called ‘the gauntlet of confrontation with the total context of experience. (Thomas Merton)
Thomas Howard
Posted in Church, Community, Discipleship, Gospel, Liturgy, Peace, Relationships, Worship on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…we proclaim together our citizenship in that joyful realm known as the Kingdom of Heaven, where pride, cruelty, greed, and all the things that wreck our fellowship with each other are forever banished, and where the citizens always fervently and joyfully offer each other ‘the peace of the Lord.’ This is what sanctity (‘sainthood’) is [...]
Voltaire
Posted in God, Searching, Skepticism on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh (Voltaire, French Philosopher and writer of the 18th c.)
Madeline L’Engle
Posted in Baptism, Children, Church, Community, Love, Renewal, Resurrection, Sacraments on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am glad that in the communion of my church we are baptized as infants, because this emphasizes that the gift of death to this world and birth into the Kingdom of God is, in fact, gift—it is nothing we have earned, or even, as infants, chosen. It is God’s freely bestowed love. It is [...]
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