"Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people."

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Source : "Moving Beyond Tribal Religion" by Ryan Thomas Neace, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

Diana Butler Bass

#Healing Quotes #People Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.”
“When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.”
“Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.”
“I think I get laid less now than I used to, because Iâ€™m way more paranoid now.”

Source : "Gerard Butler In ‘Men’s Journal’: Talks Getting Laid, Trimming Jennifer Aniston’s Bush". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.”
“The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.”
“...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.”
“I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.”

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