Choices Quotes by Diana Butler Bass

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

— Diana Butler Bass

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

— Diana Butler Bass

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on…

— Diana Butler Bass

“To transform home is to transform the world.”

— Diana Butler Bass

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

— Diana Butler Bass

“Spirituality is not just about sitting in a room encountering a mystical god in meditation or about seeing God in a sunset. Awe is…

— Diana Butler Bass

“Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and…

— Diana Butler Bass

“The whole message of the Christian scripture is based in the idea of metanoia, the change of heart that happens when we meet God…

— Diana Butler Bass

“Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more…

— Diana Butler Bass

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

— Diana Butler Bass

“The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.”

— Diana Butler Bass