Insurrection Quotes

“What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

“In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

“A true Christian militant attacks systems of oppression and fights for a better world even though that new world might negatively affect their own position of power.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

“Another way that we avoid a full confrontation with these anxieties is by avoiding too much self-reflection. We do this by surrounding ourselves with activities that ensure we never have to really be alone with our thoughts. Indeed it is even common for people to discourage too much self-reflection by pointing to the link between thinking and depression. It is thought that too much self-reflection can lead to a dark melancholy. However, what if thinking doesn’t make one depressed but rather unveils a depression that had, up until then, gone unnoticed? What if one can be profoundly depressed and yet not even be aware of it?”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To believe is human; to doubt, divine

“You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither high church nor low church, Catholic nor Protestant, citizen nor alien, capitalist nor communist, gay nor straight, beautiful nor ugly, East nor West, theist nor atheist, Israel nor Palestine, American nor Iraqi, married nor divorced, uptown nor downtown, terrorist nor freedom fighter, for all are made one in Christ Jesus.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

“After that day, the father began to take an interest in his son’s life”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine