Friday, February 04, 2005

Quotes for today

FROM POSTMODERN PILGRIMS BY LEONARD SWEET

You are worse off than you ever imagined, but God loves you more than you could ever hope.--
Manhattan church planter Tim Keller

At what else does the touching of lips aim but at the junction of souls.--
Favorinus of Arles

We somehow think that the church is here for us; we forget that we are the church, and we are here for the world--
Erwin McManus

Christ does not give himself the name "custom" but "truth".--
Augustine

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug--
Mark Twain

Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest--that is divine.--
St. Ignatius

Holy Ground is never private terf but always communal space.
Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster

Many of us love religion all too much and God all too little. We love ourselves too much and the world too little.--
Erwin McManus

We do not see things as they are, but as we are.--
Jewish proverb

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