Faith

You are the last hope of humanity.

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being 'born again' but little time on 'growing up' again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward and into a big world where they will spend the rest of their spiritual lives trying to find what they are looking for.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

...If Faith shows up in your dreams again tonight, do yourself a favor and dream on.

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul.

I bow my knees and pray to God.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.

When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

You can endure all things by grace.