Chesterton
Radically ordinary hospitality—those who live it see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God’s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth. They know they are like meth addicts and sex-trade workers. They take their own sin seriously—including the s
... See moreRosaria Champagne Butterfield • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
it argues that there is one God and many faiths—and only one world in which to live together in peace. That means that for Judaism the great spiritual challenge is not so much finding God within oneself as finding God within the other, the stranger.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
The point was subtler, and more directly related to the actual agenda behind the lawyer’s question. What he was really interested in was where the covenant boundary-line had to be drawn. Jesus’ question at the end of the story was not simply, how then should you behave towards those you normally despise? It was sharper: which of the three turned ou
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
IF you want to know what is meant by “God’s will” in man’s life, this is one way to get a good idea of it. “God’s will” is certainly found in anything that is required of us in order that we may be united with one another in love. You can call this, if you like, the basic tenet of the Natural Law, which is that we should treat others as we would li
... See moreThomas Merton • New Seeds of Contemplation
Generally speaking, the ordinary man should be content with the terrible secret that men are men—which is another way of saying that they are brothers.