Brimstone Quotes

“You can tell you’ve created God in your own image when He hates the same people you do. —Tom Weston”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“Through Jesus, judgment has been redeemed, bought back, and administered correctly through eyes of love rather than eyes of fear.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“People can’t see God clearly because we keep creating fog banks of failed legalism, self-focused religion, definitions of holiness that extract us from the real world, and fear of our new neighbors because they are not like us. We are not friends of the world, which makes us very unlike Jesus—the one we purport to follow.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“our problem is not judgment itself. It’s the lack of right discernment, the absence of perfect knowledge, the void of righteous reasoning that creates the buzz saw of trite, dehumanizing black-and-white lines.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“Unity can happen only when we shrink down the number of hills we will die on. And according to Paul it’s a very small list. For him, it’s one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God who’s got all the other stuff under control because He’s over all, through all, and in all.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“I was once reminded that a point of view is simply a view from a point, and oneness, or unity, can therefore never be based on getting someone to see from your point; instead it is love and unity amid different beliefs. And this is exactly why unity is so powerful. It’s almost impossible. And because it is so difficult, Jesus would much prefer we fight for a supernatural form of love and unity instead of fighting against each other or people outside our faith.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment

“Why oh why do we name our businesses after Jesus? Just the “community” coffee shops alone make me squirm—Higher Grounds Coffee Shop, Holy Grounds, Jehovah Java, He-Brew … These may seem catchy and you might think that goofy slogans will cause a spiritually hungry person to pull over and kneel before the altar of Jesus juice, but it isn’t helpful. To be honest, Jesus probably thinks your coffee sucks and is on His way right now to Starbucks, where normal people go. Seriously! If I wanted my coffee shop to draw and influence unbelievers, I’d probably name it something like Hugh’s Coffee Joint so that normal people who need a job might come work for me instead of assuming we hire only our own.”
― Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgment