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Eternity is not the opposite of time but “the quality of God in virtue of which he contains in himself the meaning of time.” —Karl Barth, Göttingen Dogmatics, 436 in Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe, 162.

The relationship between the obedience of God’s people and the triumph of God’s cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection. —John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus, 238 in Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe, 220.

When Christians get their theology wrong, they cannot help but get their lives and their accounts of the world wrong as well. —Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe, 215.

If we would find ourselves in the presence of God, we are ill advised to pursue strategies which exacerbate the conditions of his absence from our world. —Nicholas Lash, Easter in Ordinary, 89 in Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe, 64.

Teach us to drop the weapons we carry in our hands, in our hearts, and on our tongues. Enable us to be soldiers of your who destroy the weapons of our oppressors with your grace. Amen. —Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer, July 4.

If the vision of God which is made by means of the creation, gives life to all the living in the earth, much more does the revelation of the Father, which comes through the Word, give life to those who see God. —Irenaeus of Lyon, in Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer, June 28.

For just as the body is clothed in its garments, and the flesh in its skin, and the bones in their flesh, and the heart in its body, so too are we, soul and body, clothed from head to food in the goodness of God. —Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Revelation 1, ch [...]

The Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart that it may be an invincible defense to withstand and drive off all the stratagems of temptation. —John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, III.ii.36.

It is time for Muslims and Christians to rebel against religion as a marker of identity and weapon in worldly struggles. It usurps the place of God in their lives. —Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response, 253-4.

A man walks into a bookstore and looks up books on loneliness, and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman looks for books on loneliness, and the store clears out. —Douglas Coupland, Player One, 8.