How to Be a Sinner
there is something profoundly liberating about the idea of penitence. It lies in the fact that when we suffer, there are two questions we can ask. The first is, ‘Why did this happen to me?’ The second is, ‘What then shall I do?’
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own. Tolstoy got it halfway right: anything that makes me feel comfort wit
... See morePhilip Yancey • The Jesus I Never Knew
Jesus came not to give us guilt but to give us life. We never fully arrive at the perfect lives or the perfect world we hope for, which is why grace is so magnificent. But we still must strive to see our hypocrisies and contradictions become less and less each day. We are all bound up in the filthy system, and if you find yourself particularly boun
... See moreShane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
