Reflections

God cannot be Word-less, for the Word is God…. Since God cannot be without this Word, he simply could not ever be reclusive.
~Michael Reeves, president of Union School of Theology (Oxford)

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
~Anonymous

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
~ John Owen, 1616-1683

It were a good [contest] amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offence, and the other to labor to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
~ Richard Sibbes 1577-1635, English theologian

The strength of a person’s character would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

This Sunday’s readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34