Elizabeth A. Johnson Quotes

#1. As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#2. Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#3. God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#4. That all species are related in the flow of life and death is a keystone of evolutionary theory. The grandeur displayed in this view of life is ecological in character.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#5. Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#6. Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#7. Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#8. I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

Elizabeth A. Johnson