Feasting on the Word— Year B, Volume 2 Quotes

“But if we are to take seriously the biblical covenants—established here with Noah and later with Abraham, David, and through baptism into Jesus’ death and resurrection with all who call upon God’s name—then we must recognize that God has indeed entered into a genuine relationship with humanity and is therefore now subject to the hope and disappointment, joy and grief that attend all relationships.”
― David L. Bartlett, Feasting on the Word— Year B, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide

“One cannot skim a chapter of the Bible a day, offer up a mumbled prayer, without pondering and meditating and musing over a lifetime, and expect to gain a happy blessedness. What may result instead is a pernicious wickedness, fueled by selective reading, by brief musing, by little delight. So much of the use of the Bible in our century smacks of these three mockeries of the psalmist’s call for rich reading, lengthy pondering, and genuine joy. Rather than stout trees, such Torah misuse breeds chaff, driven away by the next false wind of hatred, bigotry, or triumphalist nationalism.”
― David L. Bartlett, Feasting on the Word— Year B, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide