Wesley Hill Quotes

#1. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.

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#2. In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

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#3. I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it.

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#4. Primary question, over time, became a question about love. Where was I to find love? Where was I to give love?

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#5. Ignoring is not the path to redeeming.

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#6. No longer was I simply struggling; I was learning to struggle well, with others, in the presence of God.

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#7. Rainer Maria Rilke: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

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#8. While the priest prayed over me, I thought, "Friendship" was probably a good word to choose, after all. Without people to love and be loved by, I don't imagine faith is very sustainable.

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#9. I have come to realize my need to take the New Testament witness seriously that groaning and grief and feeling broken are legitimate ways for me to express my cross-bearing discipleship to Jesus. It's not as if groaning means I am somehow doing something wrong. Groaning is a sign of my fidelity.

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#10. Don't let your background or commitment to your own tradition make you fearful of joining in the adventure the Holy Spirit prepares for you.

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#11. We experience him both as an unwanted presence reminding us that our thoughts, emotions, and choices have lasting consequences, as well as a radiant light transforming us gradually, painfully, into the creatures he wants us to be.

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#12. I had not mastered the discipline, as N. T. Wright calls it, of looking to the cross of Christ and seeing evidence there that I am loved extravagantly and inexorably by the self-giving triune God.

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#13. Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes.

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#14. I can only answer the question "What am I to do?" if I can answer the prior question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?" Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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#15. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.

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#16. The Christian story proclaims that all the demands of Scripture are ultimately summons, calls, invitations - beckoning us to experience true, beautiful, and good humanness.

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#17. When I cannot feel God's love for me in my struggle, to have a friend grab my shoulder and say, "I love you, and I'm in this with you for the long haul" is, in some ways, an incarnation of God's love that I would otherwise have trouble resting in.

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#18. The dynamics of human sinfulness and divine mercy and grace are the same for all of us, regardless of the particular temptations or weaknesses we face.

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#19. If all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body, then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies - demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.

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