More quotes from Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

A sin-defined history understands history primarily as the experience of what men and women, some better and some worse than us do…by contrast , a salvation defined by history accepts all the sin evidence but penetratingly discerns the sovereignty of God and the work of salvation “in, through, and under” all of it. (179)

We live mainly by forms and patterns, if the forms are bad, we live badly. (181)

The view of death as tragedy is a legacy of the Greeks, the death of Jesus is not tragic (188)

Our sensuality is not a barrier to spirituality; it is our only access to it. Thomas Aquinas was convinced that asensuality was a vice, the rejection of one’s senses often leading to sacrilege. (198)

A ritual puts me into the larger reality w/o requiring that I understand it or feel it at the moment. (205).

Rituals are a good sign to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.—Anne Lammot (205??)

When we realize how integral acts of hospitality are in evangelism, maybe we will be more deliberate and intentional about it (216).

It’s a strange thing, but sacrifice never seems to show up on anyone’s Myers-Briggs profile….there is nothing about a life of sacrifice that appeals to our well-intentioned desire to make things better for out neighbors and ourselves…but the self-promotion and self-help ways of salvation, so popular among us, do nothing but spiral us further into the abyss. (219)

Respendeo esti mutabor—I respond although I will be changed (225).

There can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from an immersion and embrace of community (226).

The more we get involved in what God is doing, the less we find ourselves running things, the more we participate in God’s work as revealed in Jesus, the more is done to us and the more is done through us. (231).