An eclectic mixture of interesting and/or elegant quotes for your consideration

Your algorithm is the receipt for what you’ve been looking at online
– Caitlin Moran

Nobody is completely useless
– Rufus Heald

Friendly reminder that Jesus never called anyone a heretic. He seemed to care a whole lot about how we treat people and very little about our theological attestations.
– Rev. Justin Berkobian

There is no version of you that Jesus must be persuaded to love. The cross is the beautiful proof that He already has.
– Mandy Morris

Of all the days, [The Sabbath] should be the one where you’re exempt from human expectations!
– Me

Before I came to Christ, I loved science.

Before I came to Christ, I believed in justice.

Before I came to Christ, I wanted to uplift all people.

And now as a Christian,

I still love science, but now I know why.

I still believe in justice, but now I know it’s source.

I still want to see people uplifted, but now I know how.
– Sy Garte

The most offensive thing about the Father of Jesus has always been who he accepts, not who he rejects; who he includes, not who he excludes. Religion has always gotten this precisely backwards, and this is why the way of Jesus is a narrow way. Not narrow in the sense that it is accessible only to an elite few, but in that those who think themselves elite reject it by default.
– Jeff Turner

Dear Church, if you chose to approach people different than you with open curiosity instead of closed suspicion you would look a lot more like Jesus.
– an Autistic Christian

I didn’t choose my religion. It was handed to me before I could read, and by the time l could question it, questioning felt like betrayal. That’s not how you find truth. That’s how you inherit it.
– ‘Reasoned Reality’

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
– Carl Jung

One of the hardest parts of recovering from spiritual abuse is learning to trust your own judgment again.

Especially when questioning your judgment was part of the abuse
– Christopher David

The more I read the Old Testament, the more obvious it is why Jesus was killed — he stood against the religious-political‑economic machine that claimed divine authority over men and promoted violence and inequality. Biblical inerrancy is an affront to everything Yeshua died for because it protects the system he confronted.
– Katheryn Greenleaf

Oh, I’m sure the scales don’t lie. But they do sometimes exaggerate.
– Me

Not all who wander are lost…. some of us are just following where our faith journey takes us. You don’t have to have a destination in mind or a specific theological goal to aim for to have a faith that is meaningful to you and that follows Jesus.
– Rev. Dr. Amanda Whittington

Dear Conservative Christians: Telling people they are not Christians because they don’t adhere to conservative values is both unbiblical and heretical.

Faith in Jesus makes someone a Christian, not loyalty to your political ideology.
– Ortinel

I mean, AI is threatening to take over the world and cause human extinction, but my word processor can’t handle “He keeps typing ‘teh’ . . . I’ll bet he means ‘the.’ Let’s just correct that for him.”
– Pete Enns

Christians living out theology is the best apologetic; Christians vocally affirming theology without conforming their actions to it is the worst.
– Griffin Gooch

The thing I’d hate to find out someday is that somebody needed grace and I was the one who decided God didn’t mean it for them. So I lean toward welcome every time, and I’m willing to answer to God for that.
– Beau Stringer

Deconstruction is the ultimate way to reclaim your true faith from an environment where you weren’t given any option to choose your beliefs.
– Katheryn Greenleaf

I used to think being a mature Christian meant having fewer questions.

These days, I’m a lot more suspicious of people who claim to have all the answers.
– Christopher David

The NHS has been left in the corridor, untreated
– Duncan

For those of you who don’t know, in addition to my nearly 40 years of service in ministry, I also spent 25 years bi-vocationally as a chemical analysis & method development consultant in both corporate settings and private practice, primarily serving in the pharmaceutical, defense, and law enforcement forensics environments. It paid for my time spent in serving smaller congregations who would have otherwise had no guidance.

There is no argument that can be made to me to delegitimize my faith in science, or my spiritual faith – though both areas have made some major bungles over the centuries. I find both necessary to have the fullest understanding possible of my life here on Earth. No one needs to “choose a side” in this made up war. It is only fostered by those who understand neither.
– Rev R. L. Brandner

Don’t ask me if I’m a Christian. Ask my neighbors.
– Christina

What is God like?
What do our spirits tell us?
– George MacDonald

If it is in fact true that ‘it takes all sorts’, then that means there is no such thing as ‘one size fits all’
– Me

The Hebrew Testament is unquestionably a perilous text second only to the Book of Revelation. Read it superficially and it can easily lead a person into error. It needs to be read with a couple of points in mind.

First, that it is not equal to the New Testament. It records earlier moments in salvation history when revelation was incomplete, and imperfectly understood. It interpreted events according to these imperfect understands of God, and His Will.

Following on from this first point, the Hebrew Testament needs to be read, and understood through the fullness of revelation in Christ, not the other way around.

Finally, scripture needs to be read in more than simply the literal sense. It needs to be interpreted as well by the moral, analogical, anagogical senses, and with a mind to the literary forms employed by the inspired authors.

If you bring to a flattened out book all of the interpretive power with which you would read a comic book you’re in trouble right from the start.
– Steven Walker