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“he recognized that the purpose of individual growth is to share with others.”
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
A congregation that carries children, as Meredith’s does, is a life-community, a community not hunting resources but encountering resonance. This congregation’s life is not in its innovation but in its encounter with the concrete others whom it ministers to and is ministered by.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
God is the objective reality of personhood.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
to live is to give.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Biblical truth, a truth that cannot emerge at once but only through the experience of formative events, is a movement from acts done by God for the sake of human beings, to acts done by human beings for the sake of God.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
once we count, we need to act. Finding the lost, whether they are sheep, coins, or people, takes work. It also requires our efforts, and from those efforts there is the potential for wholeness and joy.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
The righteous do not sit still. They do not have a quiet life.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
There is no hierarchy in the spiritual world.