Brian D. McLaren

Quotes

• “At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their wo...”
• “Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies ...”
• “We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, w...”
• “In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radi...”
• “If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and v...”
• “Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasemen...”
• “This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of ...”
• “We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rathe...”
• “I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of r...”
• “The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can...”
• “In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendan...”
• “We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements t...”