Feasting on the Word— Year A, Volume 4 Quotes

“Our concern is not first and foremost the purity of the church or the rightness of our doctrine, but our willingness to follow Jesus into the world and onto the cross. We do not control God or give Jesus the conditions to our discipleship; instead, we risk contamination and insecurity by releasing the need to protect our own lives and institutions.”
― David L. Bartlett, Feasting on the Word— Year A, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2

“Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young military officer who wished to be a poet. In one of them he responds to the young man’s lament that he had lost his belief in God: Why don’t you think of him as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity? … What keeps you from projecting his birth into the ages that are coming into existence, and living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?13”
― David L. Bartlett, Feasting on the Word— Year A, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2