Luke Timothy Johnson Quotes

#1. Any profession of faith ... entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#2. God's image ... is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#3. It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#4. For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#5. Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#6. 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 its own space and time within us, and to neglect it is to lose ourselves.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#7. As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

Luke Timothy Johnson