A Different Way Quotes

“Notice how Bernard’s words to his monastic brothers echo those of Jesus: “Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a scepter but a hoe.”8 Richard J. Foster comments, “[Jesus] totally and completely rejected the pecking-order systems of his day. . . . Therefore the spiritual authority of Jesus is an authority not found in a position or a title, but in a towel.”
― Christopher a Hall, A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus