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1 " Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win. "
― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots
2 " If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form. "
― Amos Smith
3 " Theology at its best doesn’t seek to solve, but to behold. "
4 " The Alexandrian Mystics’ emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today. "
5 " Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith. "
6 " God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being. "
7 " Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom. "
8 " Christianity’s job, in the words of George Fox, is to live in the “power, life, light, seed and wisdom, by which we may take away the occasion of wars. "
9 " Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don’t comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God’s love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations. "
10 " God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection. "
11 " The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus’ divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated. "
12 " The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages. "
13 " To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was “one united dynamic nature”: “at once God and human . . .” Ultimately, a Divine mystery—a paradox. "
14 " We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand. "
15 " When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God. "
16 " God says to us “Some things won’t get done unless you do them. "
17 " The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God. "
18 " Jesus was contemplative and activist, mystic and prophet, Spirit and form, God and human, absolute and relative, Creator and creature, existing for eternity and existing in time. "
19 " I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus. "
20 " I worship a God who is as broad as the outer limits of the expanding universe and as tiny as a mustard seed. "
