“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we knew it…while at the same time revealing to… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other. — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking,… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“We must let go of any fantasy concerning the church as a stable, predictable, well-regulated organization. If the church is truly the place in… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways,… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose anything except… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived. — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Faith is first of all not attachment to a body of doctrines but a process of responding in obedience and trust to God’s Word.… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
