God Is the Good We Do Quotes

“          Where does your lap go when you stand up?           Where does your fist go when you open your hand?           The same place God goes when you diminish life.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“     God prefers a good atheist           to a wicked believer.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“God does not “work in strange ways,” alas, but in ways that are perfectly familiar.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“God is not one Fire,      but every single flame of hope,           of forgiveness,                of effort to do good, anywhere, eternally.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“Said Confucius himself: “It is the human that can make the Way great,      not the Way that can make the human great.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God’s continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

“We must see God, when we see God as agentic, as an uplifting force only, and abandon most if not all of God’s other purported attributes. God is only where God is, not everywhere. God is only what God is, not everything. And God is only good, not bad. I see these as the true meaning of Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, “I am that which I am” (Exodus 3:14).”
― Michael Benedikt, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy