Sublime

He redeems every Jewish slave he finds; you will discover no slaves in this house, or in any of his many houses in many cities.

It was the party of the century. We were in the presence of unyielding simplicity and care. He who had so little was giving us a lesson in how to give, and with not one hint of self-absorption. He was loving us in the best way he could.

Today, the pastor’s education is not to discipline the will but to qualify her for the profession.

Julian of Norwich, “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.