'Heard: The Week in Quotes (vol 5)

Why does God reveal Himself to us? Because, as we saw, He who made us rational beings wants, in His love, to have us as His friends.

-- James I Packer

Time and again the unintended message we Evangelicals send to the world shows that we don’t truly bury our wounded, as goes the common in-joke. Instead, we act is if they were never part of us to begin with. “Our wounded? No, someone else’s wounded.”

-- Dan Edelen, from his post "The Pastor: Not One of Us," which is more than worth a read

Indeed, capitalism is probably more anticommunal in theory than in practice, for human beings cannot be as consistently selfish and calculating as capitalist doctrine calls on them to be.

-- Glen Tinder

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

-- Pope John Paul II