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People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.
David Steindl-Rast, AZ Quotes.
To say “I believe in Jesus Christ…who rose from the dead,” is to say I believe that the Resurrection goes on and on and on forever. Every time Jesus rises in our own hearts in new ways, the Resurrection happens again. Every time we see Jesus where we did not recognize him before—in the faces of the poor, in the love of the unloved, in the revelatory moments of life, Jesus rises anew. The real proof of the resurrection lies not in the transformation of Jesus alone but in the transformation awaiting us who accept it.
Joan Chittister:’Christ is Risen. We are Risen.’
Rosemarieberger.com/2013/04/02/joan-chittister-christ-is-risen-we-ar…
We would all agree that evil is to be rejected and overcome; the only question is, how? How can we stand against evil without becoming a mirror-but denied-image of the same? That is often the heart of the matter, and in my experience is resolved successfully by a very small portion of people, even though it is quite clearly resolved in the life, death and teaching of Jesus. [Jesus gives us] a totally different way of dealing with evil—absorbing it in God (which is the real meaning of the suffering body of Jesus) instead of attacking it outside. It is undoubtedly the most counterintuitive theme of the entire Bible.
Richard Rohr Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, p. 143-145.
We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (…) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A daybook of Wisdom and Faith, goodreads.com
Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.”
Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus:Transforming Heart and Mind, goodreads.com
