Quotes

"When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion - its message becomes meaningless.
Abraham Heschel
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“…Religion is unique to each individual and that is the beauty of the story of which we are a part. We come and worship the stories and experiences of millions of people with God – the millions of priests [agents] who spread the word and ministry of love and reconciliation.”

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“Religion’s worst enemy is not OPPOSITION but INDIFFERENCE.”

--Henry Sloane Coffin

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ON VOCATION (Latin root is “vocare” – ‘to call’; calling)

"The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done...

...The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger intersect."

--Frederick Buechner:

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“If we are to be a kingdom of priests, then it is important to always have God’s kingdom as a part of our very being and existence. Each of us has the kingdom of God in us –that’s what enables the ‘kingdom of priests’. But we constantly must remind ourselves to realize [to be aware of] the kingdom of God within us; without that, we become indifferent and break the covenant.”

--From Ulrich Schaffer’s book Greater Than Our Hearts