“I’m going to keep this brief: I think that we should stop having spoken prayers in worship services.” - Tony Jones
I know this is provocative, but I appreciate it. Go read the rest of Tony’s thoughts on this topic at Adam Walker Cleaveland’s blog.
"True faith in God is not living with a conviction that everything is going to be okay in the end because we know that our heavenly father is taking care of us. It is, rather, acknowledging and accepting the ultimate mystery of things, and precisely in the face of that mystery, going out like Abraham, not really knowing where we are going, but nevertheless moving forward creatively and with confidence…"
— Gordon Kaufman (via)
"The things I thought were so important - because of the effort I put into them - have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able either to measure or to expect, we’re the things that mattered."
— Thomas Merton (HT: Perrodin)
"For me, faith is fidelity to an infinite demand which has to be underwritten by love…let’s say that the faith of the faithless is an openness to love, as giving what one does not have and receiving that over which one has no power."
— Simon Critchley (HT: Eliacin)
