Marcus Borg Quotes

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• Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
• So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one…
• How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
• The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake…
• When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned…
• 'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a…
• The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good).…
• The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
• God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.
• The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
• Imagine that Christianity is about loving God,
• Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in…
• God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or…
• Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.
• Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember…
• Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart…
• One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female…
• Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the…

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