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Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots QUOTES

Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots QUOTES

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 " Theology at its best doesn’t seek to solve, but to behold. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

3 " The Alexandrian Mystics’ emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

4 " Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

5 " God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

6 " Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

7 " 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. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

8 " 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. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

9 " God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

10 " The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

11 " We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

12 " When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

13 " God says to us “Some things won’t get done unless you do them. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

14 " The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

15 " 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. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

16 " I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

17 " I worship a God who is as broad as the outer limits of the expanding universe and as tiny as a mustard seed. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

18 " Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can “rest in God. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

19 " When we take our social role too seriously the first thing we lose is our sense of humor. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

20 " When we revere our human form we respect other human beings, who are so similar to us, for their innate worth. This is the starting place for developing a social conscience. "

― Amos Smith , Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots