Light and Shifting Shadows: Liberty and Obedience

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Liberty and Obedience

"Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery."

~ William Penn, quoted in Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt, The Religious History of America~

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DavidSeptember 19, 2008 at 1:22 AM
So what is liberty plus obedience? Peace?

Interesting...

I should blog more often.
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"You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. That's the burden.

Like wings, they have weight; we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly."
~Bones~

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“The will to give ourselves to others and ‘welcome’ them, to readjust our identities to make space for them, is prior to any judgment about others, except that of identifying them in their humanity. The will to embrace precedes any ‘truth’ about others and any construction of their ‘justice.’”
~Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace, 29~

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~Andre Gide~

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“I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of my Father? I am constantly surprised at how I keep taking the gifts God has given me—my health, my intellectual and emotional gifts—and keep using them to impress people, receive affirmation and praise, and compete for rewards, instead of developing them for the glory of God. . . . It’s almost as if I want to prove to myself and to my world that I do not need God’s love, that I can make a life on my own, that I want to be fully independent.”
~ Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 43.

Light and Shifting Shadows

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Liberty and Obedience

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