Quentin: You know, more and more I think that for many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful, or what-the-hell-ever. But underlying it [...]
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Arthur Miller
Posted in Autonomy, Creator, Humanity, Identity, Judgment, Meaning on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Donald Miller
Posted in God, Identity on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What if our value exists because God takes pleasure in us? (Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What)
Donald Miller
Posted in Brokenness, Gospel, Identity, Jesus Christ on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But if the gospel of Jesus is relational; that is, if our brokenness will be fixed, not by our understanding of theology, but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy which only heaven knows… Perhaps this is what the apostles stumbled upon. (Donald Miller, Searching for God [...]
Vincent Van Gogh
Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]
Tom Morris
Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)
Christopher Moore
Posted in Belief, Discipleship, Faith, Identity, Imagination, Jesus Christ on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You two [Jesus and his friend, Biff] are the ninnies here. You both rail on them [the 12 apostles] about their intelligence, when that doesn’t have anything to do with why they’re here [following Jesus]. Have either one of you heard them preach? I [Mary Magdalene] have. Peter can heal the sick now. I’ve seen [...]
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)
Eugene Peterson
Posted in God, Identity, Worship on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World…I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I’m always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is [...]
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