“ At the same moment when massive global institutions seem to rule the world, there is an equally strong countermovement among regular people to claim personal agency in our own lives. We grow food in b… Diana Butler Bass
“ There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal. Diana Butler Bass
“ Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid… Diana Butler Bass
“ While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Diana Butler Bass
“ The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tr… Diana Butler Bass
“ I’m waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined. Diana Butler Bass
“ Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with quar… Diana Butler Bass
“ When I get a little money I buy books, he confessed to a friend. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.13 Diana Butler Bass
“ The Samaritans and the Jews were enemies, two tribes caught in an ancient argument about birthright and ethnicity who lived in segregated neighborhoods. By Jesus’s time they were forbidden to have con… Diana Butler Bass
“ Unlike in our society, where we hide it, death surrounded medieval people. They had few hospitals, and so churches, poorhouses, and homes handled the dying and dead. Death was not a distant prospect a… Diana Butler Bass
“ Gratitude is not about stuff. Gratitude is the emotional response to the surprise of our very existence, to sensing that inner light and realizing the astonishing sacred, social, and scientific events… Diana Butler Bass
“ Sometimes critics decry spirituality as individualism, but they miss the point. Spirituality is personal, yes. To experience God’s spirit, to be lost in wonder, is something profound that we can all k… Diana Butler Bass
