“Whenever we pick up the Bible, read it, put it down, and say, “That’s just what I thought,” we are probably in trouble.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“That the Old Testament represents God chiefly as angry Judge and vicious Warrior is a false stereotype. While these images are not absent, they… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“...our role as comforters is not to solve the problem of pain; even less is it to stick up for God. Trying to vindicate… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The very idea of wisdom, as the Bible understands it, challenges the mind-set of our society and the view of knowledge that all of… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be a source… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The Garden of Eden was the place where the first human creatures might have acquired wisdom: Eden was the place for total intimacy with… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort of drama, that is, an intentional sequence of events, however simple or… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“Contrition means finding the courage to let your heart break over sin. Willfully letting your heart break and then offering the pieces to God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The problem was acutely described in 1909 in a penetrating essay by Adolf Schlatter: According to the sceptical position, it is true that the… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“For us the true measure of our wisdom will never be the grade point average we covet, a degree or rank, the right job,… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain will open,… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
