Irenic Thoughts

Irenic. The word means peaceful. This web log (or blog) exists to create an ongoing, and hopefully peaceful, series of comments on the life of King of Peace Episcopal Church. This is not a closed community. You are highly encouraged to comment on any post or to send your own posts.

2/17/2009

Enough to make us love


By this everyone will know
that you are my disciples,
if you have love one for another.
—Jesus (John 13:35)

We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

You can safely assume that
you've created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott (1954- )

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is from God;
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God
for God is love.
—The Apostle John (I John 4:7)

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  • At 2/17/2009 10:56 AM, Blogger The Bosom Serpent said…

    "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples,if you have love one for another."
    —Jesus (John 13:35)

    I have always felt this is one of the strongest passages in all of scripture. The proof is in the pudding as it were. Our words mean nothing if our actions betray us.

    And I passed you in Kingsland this morning.

     

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