303 results for tag: Quote for today

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

August 6, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “During a recent visit to a local university campus, I happened to pick up the Borzoi College Reader published in 1966.  I discovered the volume was a collection of short essays and stories, by distinguished and recognized authors, separated into sections designed to acquaint college students with important issues of their world, as well as introduce them to superb examples of writing and thinking. One of the essays was titled ‘The Morning They Did It’ by E.B. White – first published in The New Yorker in 1950.  White was a prolific writer who contributed a regular column for Harpers ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

August 3, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “Many sources contribute to what we know and what we think we know about God. If you’re like me, you were taught what to think about God from sources you trusted as unimpeachable, like religious authorities and their churches.  Sadly, in some cases we found out later we had been bamboozled. Don’t you just hate it when you have been bamboozled? So when you want to know more about God, as that great line from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters plaintively asked, ‘Who you gonna’ call?’ After reviewing the spiritual adventures, detours and wild goose chases I have taken thus far in life, I have ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

August 1, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “Should we do good things? Of course. Should we exhort and encourage one another to do the right things? Yes. Should we browbeat and threaten one another about the consequences of not doing the right things? No. Should we imply that doing right things gains us some standing with God that we would otherwise not have enjoyed? No. Do many in Christendom promise that our reward, our standing with God and God’s opinion of us will increase if we do more of the right things? Yes. Should they, according to the gospel? No.” Originally published in: Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard ...