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Jesus, as I noted, also “descended into hell,” and only on the third day did he “ascend into heaven.” Most of life is lived, as it were, on the first and second days, the threshold days when transformation is happening but we do not know it yet. In men's work, we call this liminal space.
Brene Brown • Falling Upward, Revised and Updated: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
In other words, the goal is actually not the perfect avoidance of all sin, which is not possible anyway (1 John 1:8–9; Romans 5:12), but the struggle itself, and the encounter and wisdom that comes from it.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
But what is perhaps most unusual about Paul’s experience and understanding of faith . . . is its participatory character. That is, the response of faith is participation in Christ’s death and resurrection—not merely obedience to or imitation of Jesus as God’s faithful one but a real sharing in his experience
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
In this depthless depth we are caught up in a unity that grounds, affirms, and embraces all diversity. Communion with God and communion with others are realizations of the same Center. And this Center, according to the ancient definition, is everywhere. “God is that reality whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”11
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Transforming Pain - A Daily Meditation by Fr. Richard Rohr
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But for this core not to disappear into subjectivism, we must also recognize the experiential within personhood. To be “in Christ” is to have an experience of the person of Jesus encountering our own person. Person or personhood (hypostasis) is a distinct spiritual and theological assertion having its origins in the early church fathers, particular
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From this depth God is seen to be the ground of both peace and chaos, one with ourselves and one with all the world, the ground “in whom we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). This depth of silence is more than the mere absence of sound and is the key.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
The sermon now needed to enter the personality of the listener. And Henry realized that the only key that fit the lock of individual personality was personality itself.