What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection... →
Frederica Mathewes-Green
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase... →
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time.... →
The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might... →
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a... →
Henri Matisse
The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm... →
Matisyahu
I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not... →
Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that... →