Randy

“I can be somewhat patient with people who think they have the truth. The problem for me is when they think they have the whole truth.”
― Richard Rohr, Yes, and...: Daily Meditations

“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

“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

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. —Thomas Merton”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love