sabbath

for the next week and a half, i don't have time to think (or atleast think out) my own thoughts, so i'll be posting quotes.

these are quotes from the sabbath course i took at the end of last month:

When asked if he was encouraging a life of powerlessness, my profesor said, “Me, no. I’m not.


But, Jesus does.”

He continued to reflect on the baptism of Christ and said this, “Jesus’ power didn’t come from being the messiah, his power came from a voice saying, ‘You are loved.’”


“The main problem in life is men.”

“My new book is the purpose driven prayer of jabez for those left behind.”

“Sabbath is not what you do. Sabbath is what you don’t do.”

”We live in a society where people are apoplectic about gay marriage but don’t raise any uproar about the fact that we are not a culture of Sabbath. That’s one of the commandments.”

“Why do you have a Messiah complex when Jesus doesn’t even have a Messiah complex.”

“As soon as we are certain about our image of God, God must mercifully shatter it.”
-Lewis

We need to keep our thumbs off the scale of reciprocity

“A pervasive form of contemporary violence and that is activism and over-work.”
-Merton

The Chinese word for busy – a combination of “heart” and “to kill” – to kill the heart



note that the catalyst for posting quotes is my busy, sabbath-free life and that i am painfully aware of the inherent irony and conviction.