June 2013
156 posts
“You might be thinking you’re unimpressive and unqualified. That’s good. God performs the most impressive feats through the most unimpressive people. God likes to wet the wood before he sets it on fire. That way, everybody knows who made it burn.”
—Steven Furtick (via rainydaysandblankets)
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“This is the table, not of the Church, but of the Lord. It has been made ready for those who love him and who want to love him more. So, come, you who have much faith and you who have little, you who have been here often and you who have not been for a long time, you who have tried to follow and you who have failed. Come, it is our Lord who invites you.”
—The Book of Alternative Services, to be said before distribution of the Eucharist. (via suntanintexas)
“We talk about “biblical families,” “biblical marriage,” “biblical economics,” “biblical politics,” “biblical values,” “biblical stewardship,” “biblical voting,” “biblical manhood,” “biblical womanhood,” even “biblical dating” to create the impression that the Bible has just one thing to say on each of these topics - that it offers a single prescriptive formula for how people of faith ought to respond to them. But the Bible is not a position paper. The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own. When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.”
—Rachel Held Evans (via inunchartedwaters)
Oh goodness—this. (via underthecarolinamoon)
Oh goodness—this. (via underthecarolinamoon)
“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist chaos of the painting, asked Picasso: ‘Did you do this?’ Picasso calmly replied: ‘No, you did this!’”
—Slavoj Žižek (via theorthodoxheretic)
