“ On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it clai… Luke Timothy Johnson
“ We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we… Luke Timothy Johnson
“ It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make sufferin… Luke Timothy Johnson
“ Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot… Luke Timothy Johnson
“ If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating it… Luke Timothy Johnson
“ Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived. Luke Timothy Johnson
“ God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other. Luke Timothy Johnson
