Top 27 Hugh Halter Quotes
#1. Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world.
Hugh Halter
#2. our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering is where we . . . gather. That's it. It's a place that anyone can come to and not feel any pressure at any level.
Hugh Halter
#3. Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.
Carl Henegan
#4. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#5. In other words, how "missional" you are is largely determined by the extent to which your people model the life, activities, and words of Jesus.
Hugh Halter
#6. And the day is coming fast when the gospel will again pass through the lives and ministries of normal people who have a full calling to ministry but also have a trade.
Hugh Halter
#7. Christianity has lost its place at the center of American life. Christians must learn how to live the gospel as a distinct people who no longer occupy the center of society. We must learn to build relational bridges that win a hearing."7
Hugh Halter
#8. Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#9. If you want a safe faith, you will never really know God because He doesn't hang out in the shallow end much.
Hugh Halter
#10. The more we do "together," the less individualistic we'll be. The more we become "one" with Christ, the less consumer oriented we'll be. The more we do for "others," the less materialistic we'll be.
Hugh Halter
#11. The second essential incarnational habit we hope to cultivate is simply listening. Listening is watching and sensitively responding to the unspoken and spoken needs of Sojourners in ways that demonstrate sincere interest.
Hugh Halter
#12. I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson
#13. We buy into the saving work of Jesus big-time, but we dodge his words and his life as prototypical for the authentic Christian life.
Hugh Halter
#14. In God's kingdom we are not just people He saves but fellow heirs of all that the King has.
Hugh Halter
#15. Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one.
"The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame." (The ground beneath her feet.)
Salman Rushdie
#16. The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
Daniel Kahneman
#17. We may not always feel it when building a deck for someone, shoveling snow, helping out financially, watching a neighbor's kids, opening our home, or giving gifts, but these habits and activities do create a well that people will eventually gravitate toward.
Hugh Halter
#18. Church is God's people intentionally committing to die together so that others can find his kingdom.
Hugh Halter
#19. As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.
Mike Trout
#20. The gospel is not about trying to wedge a little Jesus into our crazy lives. The gospel is about letting God bring redemption and the way of his crazy kingdom into our frantically dysfunctional patterns of living.
Hugh Halter
#21. Jesus's gospel is not about a cosmic religious apocalypse upon rebellious pagans. His gospel is about a new messianic kingdom where He rules in the spirit of His Father, a kingdom full of joy, grace, freedom, and release from all that ails humanity.
Hugh Halter
#22. Nothing's ever going to change my love for you. Well, at least as long as I keep wanting what I can't have.
Kate McGahan
#23. Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait
not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#25. We love Jesus as a baby on Christmas, and Jesus risen from the grave on Easter, but somehow we miss Jesus the man, the teacher, the sage, the rebel, the subversive King, the local hero, the neighborhood friend.
Hugh Halter
#26. The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.
Mardy Grothe
#27. Jesus shows us that there's never a change of mind unless there's a change of heart, and there will never be a change of heart without a conversation between trusted friends.
Halter, Hugh (2014-02-01). Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth (p. 167). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition.
Hugh Halter
