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...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly…

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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly…
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You…
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on…
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what…
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS…
Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both…
What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to…
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,…
Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He…
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I…
One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that…

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and… — Barbara Bush
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;… — Lucy Parsons
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings — Euripides
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. — Henri Matisse
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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