“The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to stop avoiding myself, to make my own choices as well. And through some sort of vital intuition, I understood that I had a long way to go, that it would bring about a profound transformation within me, even though I could not determine it's essence, or its scope. In that book there was a voice, and behind that voice threw was an intelligence that sought to establish contact with me. It was not merely the company of written words that distiller my boredom. It was a living voice, speaking. To me.”
Source: Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
“It is a bad indication when, in any period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the Scriptures to a secondary importance, illustrated in one era, when as Tulloch remarks: 'Scripture as a witness, disappeared behind the Augsburg Confession" ...No decrees of councils; no ordinances of synods; no "standard" of doctrines; no creed or confession, is to be urged as authority in forming the opinions of men. They may be valuable for some purposes, but not for this; they may be referred to as interesting parts of history, but not to form the faith of Christians; they may be used in the church to express its belief, not to form it.”
“The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga”
Source: Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
“In itself this Christian education is partly the product of the retreat of biblical scholarship from the faith community to the academy. In removing themselves to the academy biblical scholars have ceased to engage with the people of the issues of the contemporary faith context. ~ Janet Lees (p. 84). In Reading Other-Wise”
Source: Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
“Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beheld a flying roll.”
“If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.”
“The more the words, the less the meaning.”
Source: Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
“These were the fundamentalists, the power-hungry grifters who took advantage of the fact that most people don’t know the Bible all that well. They were charlatans, frauds, hypocrites, and villains. And they made for great TV.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
“That was before I realized just how precious pride is. How dangerous it is to the people in power, and that's why they want to take it away from you. That's why they scare little kids with stories of burning for eternity just for having a backbone.”
Source: The Free People's Village
“Ignite the mind's spark to rise the sun in you.”k”
Source: Le Spéculum aux alouettes