"We will not find all the answers. We will not forever satisfy the hunger. But if we are to discover what life can be like without limping along with the crutches of pride to prop us up, we have to cast them off in faith, believing Jesus' claim which he made over and over, that it is faith - not perfection - that makes us well.
- Post Christian, Christian Piatt (Jericho Press)
"O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
beyond all thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake"
- Glory to God Hymnal (Westminster John Knox Press)
"Creation has a unique language of proclamation and praise. Each part of the created order speaks eloquently of its Creator, just as consummate artistry reveals the soul of the artist." - Soul Feast, Marjorie Thompson (Westminster John Knox Press)
[Speaking about stories from creation in Genesis.] "What do these ancient stories mean for us today? They help us know what's broken with our world: something in us human beings. And they help us know what's broken in human beings: something in our desires. And they help us know what's broken with our desires: we have stopped iimitating God's good desires to create and bless and give life. Instead, we've started imitating the prideful, competitive, fearful, and harmful desires we see in one another...the desire to acquire what someone else has, the desire to compete and consume, the desire to judge as evil those who get in our way, even the desire to harm or kill those who are obstacles to our desires."
- We Make the Road by Walking, Brian D. McLaren (Jericho Press)
"Like [the Apostle] John, we are cursed with the task of finding and proclaiming a contemporary, poetic symbol that sings this song of resurrection and uncovers the truth about our age - that we are the living dead - and reveals the truth about God's past and planned invasion in a way that summons the living dead to enlist in God's war effort. Some image like...the Dawn of the Dead."
- Invasion of the Dead, Brian K. Blount (Westminster John Knox Press)
