"To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Jesus Quotes #Mean Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.”
“My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.”
“Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and in front of hundreds of witnesses, 'this is what I know to be true; this is my point of view and I will risk my life for it. Think of me what you will, I will fight - with any and every means available to me - for what I know is as right and as necessary as air and water.'”
“The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?”
“Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.”

Source : John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press
“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
“We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris
“Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “The Dragon of Avalon”, p.95, Penguin

You may also like:

Anthony de Mello
Writer
Brennan Manning
Author
Dallas Willard
Philosopher
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Pastor
Dorothy Day
Journalist
Eugene H. Peterson
Author
Jean Vanier
Philosopher
Richard J. Foster
Author
Thomas Merton
Writer