With or Without God Quotes

“It is time for humanists and atheists, skeptics and agnostics to see they share a common future with the many who are still comforted by their religious beliefs.”
― Gretta Vosper, With Or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe

“The church the future needs is one of people gathering to share and recommit themselves to loving relationships with themselves, their families, the wider community, and the planet. Such a church need not fear the discoveries of science, history, archaeology, psychology, or literature; it will only be enhanced by such discoveries. Such a church need not avoid the implications of critical thinking for its message; it will only become more effective. Such a church need not cling to and justify a particular source for its authority; it will draw on the wisdom of the ages and challenge divisive and destructive barriers.”
― Gretta Vosper, With Or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe

“The future of any discipline does not survive wrapped in the trappings of the past; it can come about only when the carapace is cracked and something new, related to but distinct from what went before, is freed and allowed to thrive.”
― Gretta Vosper, With Or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe

“[Sociologist T.R. Young] sees all life imbued with what he calls the holy. Our responsibility is to lift up that holiness. To identify that as our work is to create god....This, then, is the work that is demanded of the church in the postmodern world--to identify that which is holy, to uphold those values that would preserve it, and to challenge us to live according to them in a way that ensures holiness remains in our lives and in our world.”
― Gretta Vosper, With or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important than What We Believe – Radical Reform and Compassionate Spirituality for the Modern Church