Desire Quote by Bruce Cannon Gibney

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

— John Ortberg

“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that…

— Philip Yancey

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.”

— James Madison

“We shall often find in our story that the religious behavior of people who have not been major beneficiaries of modernity articulates a strongly…

— Karen Armstrong

“These are attitudes masquerading as ideas, emotional commitments disguised as intellectual honesty. However sincere the current evangelists of unbelief may be, they are doing…

— David Bentley Hart

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.”

— Marcus J. Borg

“This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word…

— Adam Nicolson

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion of human…

— René Girard

“Sadly, this need to be needed fuels many of our pastoral motivations. Left unchecked, people begin to need us as pastor and confidant more…

— J R Briggs

“To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is…

— Bertrand Russell