Soul Feast Quotes

“What I have observed over the past twenty years has increased my sense of urgency about the need for spiritual practice among us. If we do not learn to honor and strengthen the inner life of spirit, all the external changes in the world cannot save us. New laws, regulations, and technological fixes are all susceptible to human corruption and self-interest. If we do not know ourselves as beings created to reflect the divine image, we will lose the immense opportunity for transformation God has offered us in the gift of life itself. And if the love of God embodied in Christ cannot turn us, how shall we be turned?”
― Marjorie, J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“In a certain sense, when we are engaged in spiritual reading it is not so much we who read the Word as the Word who “reads” us!”
― Marjorie, J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“It is one thing to be told what God is like; it could be another thing altogether to discover the truth for ourselves!”
― Marjorie J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“Protestant churches chiefly gave their energies to the practices of worship, Bible study, and service. Christians worldwide had lost touch with the riches of historic spiritual practices, particularly those of a contemplative nature. This loss”
― Marjorie, J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“The first truth is the most basic affirmation of our faith: God loves us. This is not a general rule to which you, personally, may be an exception. It is not a conditional rule that applies only when you are good, pure, and lovable. God's passionate and personal love for each and every human being expresses who God is. Unfailing love is the divine nature and the divine choice in relation to us. God loves us with an overwhelming love that none of our sins can erase.While we can grieve and disappoint this love, nothing we do or fail to do can alter its depth or reality. It is a gift, a given.We cannot control whether God loves us by efforts to gain this love or even to lose it. Since we neither deserve nor earn such love, God's fondest dream is that we will receive and respond to it.”
― Marjorie J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“Despite our impressive technological advances, we have yet to learn how to live responsibly on this earth with the great multitude of God’s creatures. We have been unwilling to face the”
― Marjorie, J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“Phyllis Tickle, in her book The Great Emergence,2 argues that we are undergoing the most recent of our every-500-year “rummage sales”—an upheaval in culture and worldview that will inevitably reshape our faith interpretations and institutions as surely as the Great Schism of the eleventh century and the Great Reformation of the sixteenth century. This tsunami of change is well under way, marked by the postmodern and post-Christian sensibilities of the millennial generation.”
― Marjorie, J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“The Creator God has spread out for our delight a banquet… of rivers and lakes, of rain and sunshine, of rich earth and of amazing flowers, of handsome trees and of dancing fishes, of contemplative animals and of whistling winds, of dry and wet seasons, of cold and hot climates… and so are we, blessings ourselves, invited to the banquet. Matthew Fox”
― Marjorie J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

“The old mystics were fond of saying that we are capax Dei, that is, capable of receiving and embodying divine life.”
― Marjorie J. Thompson, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life