“When we worry, our heart doesn’t leave space for God. When we pray and trust God, we leave space for miracles.” “The way to God is through Jesus, in Him we have an advocate for our dreams and prayers.” “In Jesus’s words to love our neighbor, it contains an obligation to go beyond being kind. Giving and sharing is part of this obligation.”
“The whole concept of God taking on human shape, and all the liturgy and ritual around that, had simply never made any sense to me. That was because, I realized one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with bodies, important things like love have to be embodied. That s all. God had to be embodied or else people with bodies would never in a trillion years understand about love.”
“How these people still expecting jesus to come back when they got a god like me?”
“Yesu alikuwa binadamu ili afe kama binadamu kwa ajili ya binadamu. Alikufa msalabani ili sisi wote tuokoke. Lakini Shetani hataki hilo litokee. Akiingilia uumbaji wa Mungu toka tumboni mwa binadamu, binadamu atakayezaliwa hatakuwa na uwezo wa kuongoka. Atakuwa na roho ya jini itakayomjua Shetani badala ya kumjua Mungu. Hivyo kurudi kwa Yesu kwa mara ya pili hakutakuwa na maana, kwa sababu hakutakuwepo na mtu wa kuokolewa.”
“Shetani hawezi kujua unafikiria nini: 1 Wafalme 8:39. Yesu anajua unafikiria nini: Yohana 2:25. Shetani haweza kufanya jambo bila ruhusa ya Mungu: Mathayo 4:1. Shetani hawezi kukulazimisha kutenda dhambi: Yakobo 4:7. Pigana na mwindaji wa roho hadi roho yako ikombolewe.”
“On Christmas Eve a child will be born for us, a child who will give us love - that s what an angel said; and suddenly out of the darkness comes a light.”
“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine graciousness in ordinary life rather than in the hymns of church fathers or in the dry elaborations of theologians.”
“In the midst of pain, we begin to understand the price Jesus paid for our salvation.”
“If you read Scripture scholar Marcus Borg and go to the index in search of sinner, it ll say, see outcast. This was a social grouping of people who felt wholly unacceptable. The world had deemed them disgraceful and shameful, and this toxic shame, as I have mentioned before, was brought inside and given a home in the outcast. Jesus strategy is a simple one: He eats with them. Precisely to those paralyzed in this toxic shame, Jesus says, I will eat with you. He goes where love has not yet arrived, and he gets his grub on. Eating with outcasts rendered them acceptable.”
“I said, I ll tell you about shit, Roebuck. Take it from an expert. There s two main things about it. One thing is it s stink and corruption and waste. The other thing is if you don t pile it up too thick in any one place, it makes the seeds grow. I said, Roebuck, God s where there s seeds growing. God s where there s something no bigger than the head of a pin starting to inch up out of the stink and dark of shit towards the light of day. I said, Roebuck, God so loved the world he sent his only begotten son down there into the shit with the rest of us so something green could happen, something small and green and hopeful .”
“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the end. Amen.”
“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it in the face of the evidence of its never-ending troubles.”
“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ. they will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore, the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place. The Law cuts into the core of evil, it reveals the seat of the malady and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within. They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.”
“Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.”
“Other than out of a pure curiosity and the aim for veracity, or perhaps for educational purposes, why should it matter to you the color of Jesus? Would you love Him and what He has done for you any more or any less? If so, that would be idolatry.”
“Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is what you do with your doubt.”
“The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better than any other generation..A great man is like a mountain, you cannot appreciate when standing at its base.”