"The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world."

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Source : William Stringfellow (1999). “A Private and Public Faith”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

William Stringfellow

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“There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.”
“They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.”
“The more you know the less you talk.”
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
“Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.”
“There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.”
“People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.”
“Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.”

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