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“no one is good—except God alone” (Mark
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Help Literature,” Theology
Philip Yancey • The Jesus I Never Knew
Augustine wryly notes, “I do not think he can have any friends. If it is wrong to believe anything, then either one does wrong by believing a friend, or one never believes a friend, and then I do not see how one can call either oneself or the friend a friend.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Was the genius of my birth entrusted by divine benignity with this province?
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Emerson’s lifelong search, what he called his heart’s inquiry, was “Whence is your power?” His reply was always the same: “From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people’s law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time. I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own. Hence this sweetness.”2
Robert D. Richardson • Emerson: The Mind on Fire
The spirit of God will use me as an agent of reconciliation, no matter how resistant or unprepared or prejudiced I may be.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The humanist’s hope is an illusion, based on too great an optimism concerning the inherent goodness of human nature.