Faithfully Dangerous...: MORE FROM THE BOOK I'M WORKING THROUGH

"It is when man proclaims his own freedom that he is most firmly rivited to his beloved chains." Jacques Ellul

QUOTES

"It's strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone." John O'Donohue

Stepping out of the crazed pace set by this consumerist culture sets in motion a couple wonderful things...you gain your mind back...you gain time back...and being present, really present where your feet are planted becomes possible. It will make you a much safer person for everyone else to be near-----Okay, I said that

"The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct." --Jacques Ellul

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." Blaise Pascal

"In order to live, we need truth to be expressed by the most fragile agent, so that the listener remains free." Jacques Ellul

"The deeper the love goes...the deeper the bruising." Over The Rhine

"Only love, only love can leave such a mark...But only love, only love can heal such a scar" U2

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Henry David Thoreau

"The garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it until you have looked for it everywhere and found nowhere that is not desert." W. H. Auden

"The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet and learn to be at home." Wendell Berry

"It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Faithfully Dangerous...

Monday, July 09, 2007

MORE FROM THE BOOK I'M WORKING THROUGH

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