Gregory A. Boyd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Real #Book #Class
Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized. Toward the demonized, however, he never expressed anger; rather he exhibited only compassion. As Langton notes, "Pity rather than anger characterizes the attitude of Jesus toward the possessed...He treats them as if they were the victims of an involuntary possession." Indeed, he treats them as though they are casualties of war. For, in his view, this is precisely what they are.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Jesus #Attitude #War
The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Jesus #Fighting #Unique
So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Heaven #Victory #Age
Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Jesus #Alternatives #World
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Writing #Kissing #Years
Our central job is not to solve the worldâ€™s problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simplerâ€”and nothing could be more challenging.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Jobs #Challenges #World
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Christian #Dream #Reality
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Christian #America #People
Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Love #Judging #Evil
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Doe #Agents #World
If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, itâ€™s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#And Love
Love is the all-or-nothing of the kingdom of God. Above all we are to love (Col. 3:14; 1 Peter 4:8). Everything we do is to be done in love and, thus, communicate love (1 Cor. 16:14). We are to imitate God by living in Christlike love (Eph. 5:1â€“2), and if we do this, we fulfill the whole law (Matt. 22:37â€“40; Rom. 13:8â€“10). If we lack this, everything else we do is devoid of kingdom value, however impressive it might otherwise be (1 Cor. 13:1â€“3).
-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Love Is #Law #Done

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