“Not an idyllic hope for a later heaven but a living experience right now We cannot jump over this world or its woundedness and still try to love God. We must love God through, in, with, and even because of this world.”
Source: The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
“God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He posses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.”
“Victimization is often a dynamic. In many cases the victim is also a participant in their own victimization.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.”
“Qualquer método que esqueça que as transformações só podem ser realizadas de modo permanente e progressivo por populações que participem ativamente do processo está fadado a ser efêmero, sem auto-sustentabilidade.”
Source: Agricultura e Florestas: princípios de uma interação vital
“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in His actuality. Or rather, since causality flows from actuality, let us say that He confers the one in conferring the other, so that to the Christian mind the physical world in which we live offers a face which is the reverse of its physicism itself, a face where all that was read on the one side in terms of force, energy and law, is now read, on the other in terms of participations and analogies of the Divine Being. The Christian world takes on the character of a sacred world with a relation to God inscribed in its very being and every law that rules its functioning.”
“Is it possible that we ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specific and limited nature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it be that our expectations are so high that politics appears almost destined to disappoint? Democratic politics cannot make ‘every sad heart glad’, as Crick argued, nor did it ever promise to do so. But not always getting what you want, an awareness that public governance is often slow and bureaucratic, a frustration that some decisions are hard to understand or have to be made in secret, disbelief and anger at the selfinterested behaviour of a small number of politicians, and an acceptance that some people will always take out more from the system than they put in—these are the prices you pay for living in a democracy.”
Source: Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century
“We're fighting to worship God freely and share His Gospel freely. If we fight only to save our lives, then we're missing our true cause.”
Source: Dare
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life