Acts of love Quote by Peter Rollins

“Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.”

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“Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.”

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In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which…

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“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”

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Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into…

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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

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“However, we rarely see what happens after the hero grasps what is sought, for if we did, the impotence of the MacGuffin would be…

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“Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with…

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I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

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“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”

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What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where…

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“For just as one person’s idol is another’s icon, so one person’s fable is another’s parable.”

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“After that day, the father began to take an interest in his son’s life”

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There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

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... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

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We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day.…

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Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

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During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

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