Religion Quotes by Marcus Borg

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

— Marcus Borg

Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the…

— Marcus Borg

Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has…

— Marcus Borg

Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of…

— Marcus Borg

The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are…

— Marcus Borg

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe…

— Marcus Borg

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God,

— Marcus Borg

Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.

— Marcus Borg

People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented…

— Marcus Borg

God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.

— Marcus Borg

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

— Marcus Borg

'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw…

— Marcus Borg