Miguel > Miguel's Quotes

“If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.”
― Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.”
― Richard Rohr

“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
― John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Holiness is not a supplement to justification but the actualization of justification,”
― Michael J. Gorman, Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul's Narrative Soteriology

“The political agency of YHWH comes, in Israelite tradition, to be a stable, orderly cultic presence, but without surrendering any of the force of agency known in the exodus narrative itself. Thus “glory” becomes a cover term that holds together forceful agency and abiding presence”
― Walter Brueggemann, Delivered into Covenant: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Exodus, Part Two

“If other technology has made life easier, and provided options hitherto unknown, it has simultaneously infiltrated the human spirit in corrosive ways—impinging on our inner life with one cyber temptation after another. The explosion of information leaves us senseless and robotically at their mercy, as we “waste our powers” in trivial pursuits and newer hyperlinks.”
― Michael Fishbane, Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology