A God Determined to Have a Family: More Quotes by Will Willimon
“This is a God that is determined to have a family and a people. Now I quibble with His choices of people but Jesus had problems with that from day one, the kind of people that He loved to hang out with.”
“Isn’t it interesting that the poor, the dispossessed, the disenfranchised the Holy Spirit tends to find a home among them most frequently? Because I’ve got a pretty good situation for myself and my children. We’re well-fed, well-housed, well-futured. And if the Holy Spirit came into my life, it’d only make my life more difficult. So I have my ways for keeping the Holy Spirit at bay, one of them being my faith, my religion.”
“I don’t believe in Judeo-Christianity. I’ve never met a Judeo-Christian. I’ve met Jews, and I’ve met Christians, but I’ve never met Judeo-Christians.”
