I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.
The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.
You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.
she smiled at him, and at her own fears.