Robert McAfee Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Giving #People #Community
Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Who We Are #Determine
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Light #Justice #Patriotism
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Glasses #House #Church
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Thought Provoking #Pay #Matter
Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Prayer #Moving #Land
Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

#Art #Latin #Giving

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Robert McAfee Brown famous quotes

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