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"Seek the truth of God--come whence it may, cost what it will." God calls us to live deeply in our world, not retreat
from it. A Christian embraces thought, art, beauty, reason,philosophy, science, and Harry Potter! As the Anglican Priest George
Herbert once wrote, "It is an ill mason that refuseth any stone." God blessed us with minds--let's use them!
"Honour belongs to God. Who are those who hounour God? Those who have wholly gone out of themselves, and who do not
seek for what is theirs in anything, whatever it may be, great or little; who are not looking beneath themselves or above
themselves or beside themselves or at themselves, who are not desiring posessions or honours or ease or pleasure or profit
or inwardness or holiness or reward or the kingdom of heaven; and who have gone out from all this, from everything that is
theirs--these people pay honour to God, and they honour God properly, and they give God what is God's."
-Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
"The Church will die of boredom long before it dies of controversey."
-Bishop John Shelby Spong.
"Today's heretic is tomorrow's orthodox theologian."
-Ovey Mohammed, S.J
"I take scripture too seriously to take it literally."
-Karl Barth.
"He who does not plead for the poor cannot sing Gregorian chant."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
"A writer must have courage to say what he or she thinks. A writer's duty is to contribute to the pluralism of thinking
versus the the monolithic thinking that surrounds him or her."
-Mordecai Richler.
"Always question those who are certain of what they are saying."
-Elie Wiesel.
"God is not a Christian."
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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