Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. -“ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
– Jen Pollock Michel
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- Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it. – Charles Carleton Coffin
- Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings. – Jen Pollock Michel
- The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss. – Jen Pollock Michel
- The Bible provocatively evokes desire. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Kingdom is a signpost to the holy. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. – Jen Pollock Michel
- I didn’t know how faith felt when it grew incrementally. – Jen Pollock Michel
- God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender. – Jen Pollock Michel
- According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue. – Jen Pollock Michel
- Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words -“ can cut your insides. – Jen Pollock Michel
- They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews. – Diet Eman
- Jews don’t camp…The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. – Daniel Silva
- I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse. – Henry Miller
- Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening. – Sherry K White
- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Or is what remains in me like a defeated army,Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? – Bonhoeffer Dietrich
- We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Advent creates people, new people. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer