... that path of responsible love and pursue it. Even though, from time to time, under the pressure of all kinds of fears and angers, I have to rein in, talk to, and remind myself, confess and pray and be restored. Again, miracle of miracles, as he said it would, it works far better than ... century famine, Raul Wallenberg in the holocaust, Father Damien with his lepers, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, Frederick Douglass of Easton, Maryland, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, Dr. Tom Dooley, George Fox's Quakers ...
... s religion is never good enough for you. It's got to be your own, first person singular, a personal faith. So I think Frederick Buechner must have been thinking of Thomas when he said, "Doubt is the ants in the pants of faith." Our questioning, searching and discovering lead ... the door or shut it. I could unbuckle the armor or keep it on. I chose to open the door, to unbuckle, to loosen the reins. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was starting in my back—drip-drip ...
... we have on our own, teaching us that we are more guilty of sin than we like to admit. Thirdly, the law is like a bridle on a horse, keeping us under the rein of God. If God demanded only, easy, little things of us, then we could be good through our own effort. We wouldn't need a just, loving, and forgiving God to save us. ... Sermon on the Mount (Word Books, Waco, Texas), was particularly influential on my interpretation of this text as well as Frederick D. Bruner, The Christbook (Word Books, Waco, Texas).
