“Jesus said he wanted us to be in the world but not of it. The problem is that we have succeeded in neither. We are not in the world, but instead find ourselves in a church subculture removed from it. And inside that subculture we have become worldly.”
Jim Thwaites – Renegotiating the Church Contract P.96
"During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before.
The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just as Jesus became man… It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, a converted sinner, a churchman, a righteous man, or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one…
This is what I mean by worldliness — taking life in one’s stride, with all its duties and problems, its successes and failures, its experiences and helplessness… How can success make us arrogant or failure lead us astray, when we participate in the sufferings of God by living in this world?"
"Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience.
We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We must get into action and obey — we must behave like a neighbor to him.
But perhaps this shocks you.
Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that, there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. It is no use asking questions; for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth."
“It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while but we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
from “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel from here
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“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to wrong than to be always right and have no ideas at all.”
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