Cross Purposes

“Justice is the work that God want us to do in the physical world, and it is the work of the spirit as well as of the body.”

“A system of economic injustice, a system that keeps whole groups of people down on a permanent basis, binds all of us in slavery to a system of sin.”

“Being church, like our relationship with God, is an unfolding mystery, an ongoing journey that never stands still, never freezes in time.”

“We are being called to take on the energy and the imagination of those first believers and find new and effective ways of doing God’s work in the world.”

“The genius of our faith may be that God loves us, and loves this world that we inhabit, so much that God came to share it with us, to live in it and experience it with us.”

“We’re called not just to care for ourselves, but to cultivate a culture that brings us closer to the kingdom of heaven, a culture that reflects our baptismal promise to ‘respect the dignity of every human being.’”

“When it all gets too much for us, we wonder where God is, or whether God is asleep while the boat is sinking. But in the next moment we can remember that we have been given faith by the grace of God.”

“The parables remind us that it is not up to us to guarantee the results. It is only up to us to make sure the seeds are planted.”

“God’s dream for us calls us to enlarge our capacity for love.”

“Through the power of the Holy Trinity, working through the ongoing action of our baptism into the life and death of Christ, we are all being called, every day.”