Randy

“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism.”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love

“Loving God also helps me fully embrace myself and all that God has created me to be. Thomas Merton tells us that this is the truth at the heart of spirituality: “If I find God”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love

“To refuse this welcome, to exclude rather than include, to see other people and nations and cultures as lesser—Jesus tells us that is the definition of hell.”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love

“The point that must be remembered is that most of political and church history has been controlled and written by people on the right because they are normally the people in control. One of the few subversive texts in history, believe it or not, is the Bible. The Bible is a most extraordinary text because, again and again, it legitimates, not the people on the top, but invariably the people on the bottom or those who move toward those on the bottom—from Abraham to Moses to Jeremiah to Job to John the Baptist to Jesus. It has taken an amazing degree of denial and selective attention to miss this quite-obvious alternative pattern.”
― Richard Rohr, Yes, and...: Daily Meditations