This Sunday’s readings: Luke 2:25-35; Romans 1:1-4

Reflections

The Bible is God’s anthropology rather than man’s theology.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), Rabbi, Theologian

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
~ John Trudell, 1946–2015, Author, Actor, Musician

God’s love is precisely what the first Christians did feel. They had experienced Jesus’ love and had become convinced that Jesus was God incarnate. Once that love reached them, it could not be stopped.
~ Huston Smith, 1919-2016, Philosophy Chair at MIT

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Essayist, Lecturer

Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.
~ Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Theologian and Philosopher