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Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life QUOTES

Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life QUOTES

1 " To be the student of a teacher was to commit yourself to living in the same atmosphere and breathing the same air; there was nothing intermittent about it. Being "

― Rowan Williams , Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

2 " Becoming holy is being so taken over by the extraordinariness of God that that is what you are really interested in, and that is what radiates from you to reflect on other people. "

― Rowan Williams , Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

3 " And this means that a really holy person is someone like a great artist or musician or poet. They help us to see what we would otherwise miss: dimensions and depths in the world that we might not otherwise spot. Not every artist is a saint, by any manner of means. Some of them are conspicuously selfish egotists in their personal lives. But somehow in their work they forget themselves enough for something to come alive, to come through. And the saint, the holy person, is somebody who has been enabled to create that kind of artwork out of their very lives, to let something come through, to let a bigger world appear, a new light and a new landscape. "

― Rowan Williams , Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

4 " Disciples are expectant in the sense that they take it for granted that there is always something about to break through from the Master, the Teacher, something about to burst through the ordinary and uncover a new light on the landscape. "

― Rowan Williams , Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life