“ The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, n… Sarah Arthur
“ Enter Madeleine. Here was a Christian author who could function quite unperturbedly from inside paradox, who dared to question the assumption that all things must be either/or. Why can’t it be both/an… Sarah Arthur
“ Writes Madeleine L’Engle, in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time.10 Sarah Arthur
“ Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do mat… Sarah Arthur
“ There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Walking on Water Sarah Arthur
“ The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself… Sarah Arthur
“ Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly tied together, because neither are the loose ends of our lives.… Sarah Arthur
“ It's a theme born out of the Christian faith rather than a pagan understanding of the universe. Both views agree that we human beings are small, frail, and limited in our ability to battle the forces… Sarah Arthur
“ To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than y… Sarah Arthur
“ But at some point it becomes obvious that, ultimately, the adventure of faith is the most sensible thing to do, and in fact the only thing worth doing. As Sam says toward the end of The Two Towers, no… Sarah Arthur
“ Like Gandalf, God knows the battle going on inside our hobbitlike selves, the wrestling match between the Baggins and the Took. The Baggins side of us takes our creature comforts for granted. We assum… Sarah Arthur
“ The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first… Sarah Arthur
