“John Wesley didn’t like using the word ‘persons’ of the Trinity. One reason that’s not [helpful], it’s historic and all, but it’s very difficult for us to think of persons without thinking of individuals. When I say ‘person’ we’re thinking about a detached individual. You’re not really a person in our culture if you’re completely [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Quotable’
August 3, 2009
Where Was God?: More by Will Willimon
“‘Where was God when my son died?’ the man asked the preacher. ‘Well probably where God was when His Son lost His life.’” “When I experience my losses and my tragedies I gotta put those in the context of a God who is willing to embrace loss and tragedy and death in order to get [...]
August 2, 2009
Made Out Of Dirt: More by Will Willimon
“I’ve been led to believe that it is a horrible injustice that I’ve been made out of dirt and that I am returning to dirt…quickly. That seems so unfair to me, and yet, our story says that not’s unjust, God didn’t make you to be an angel, God made you to be this.”
August 1, 2009
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 [...]
July 31, 2009
God Came In The Flesh: More quotes by Will Willimon
In these quotes, Willimon addresses theologizing about God and he attacks abstract theology rather heavily. While I don’t agree with him that the attributes of God are merely abstractions not found in Scripture, I think he is right to point us back to Jesus. What does it mean to serve a crucified but risen Lord? [...]
July 30, 2009
In Jesus We Trust: More Quotes by Will Willimon
“You can usually detect the ethical substance of a theology by how much it talks about God and how little it talks about Jesus.’ (quoting John Howard Yoder). We have billboards all over our cities saying, ‘In God We Trust.’ Which I think is odd given that we are paying a billion dollars every two [...]
July 29, 2009
Religion of the Hands: Quotes by Will Willimon
I want to post a number of quotes by Will Willimon, the bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is something of a weird duck, a sort-of conservative moderate in a liberal denomination, and he is quite pithy and eloquent in an earthy sort of way. Obviously, I don’t agree [...]
March 6, 2009
Quotable #6
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis Think about that.
September 13, 2008
Quotable #5
“I consider it my greatest need before God and man to get my soul happy before the Lord each day before I see anybody.” – George Mueller
September 4, 2008
Quotable #4
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
August 26, 2008
Quotable #3
“If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.” – Martin Luther
August 18, 2008
Quotable #1
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” – Ancient Chinese Proverb
