But we've lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (b. 1969), Pastorin, Autorin
Source: Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Suffering & the Question of God, Faith & Trust
Occasions: For Reflection
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber (* 1969) ist eine US-amerikanische lutherische Pastorin und Publizistin, die 2008 in Denver die Gemeinde „House for All Sinners and Saints“ gründete. Sie gilt als prominente Stimme des progressiven Protestantismus und verbindet traditionelle Liturgie mit einer Theologie radikaler Gnade für gesellschaftliche und religiöse Außenseiter. Bibellesern vermittelt sie einen ungeschönten Blick auf menschliches Scheitern und göttliche Annahme, während ihre progressive Sexualethik und ihr provokanter Sprachstil in konservativen Kreisen scharf kritisiert werden.
All quotes by Nadia Bolz-Weber (22)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson