Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.
My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!
A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.
Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.