Robin Meyers Quotes

• Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

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  Believe   Three   Creeds  

  Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.

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  Together   Study   Moments  

  Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

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  Compassion   Media   Hands  

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• In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

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  Sacred   Waking   Blind  

  Robin Meyers (2010). “Morning Sun on a White Piano: Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life”, p.47, Galilee Trade

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