Quotes About Radical Love

#1. When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is - dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing. - Author: Jefferson Bethke

#2. Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love. - Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn

#3. Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness ... - Author: Ann Voskamp

#4. Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women. - Author: Sheila Jeffreys

#5. In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently. - Author: Jardine Libaire

#6. We need strength. We don't have it. When Jeb [Bush] comes out and he talks about the border, and I saw it and I was witness to it, and so was everyone else, and I was standing there, "they come across as an act of love," he's saying the same thing right now with radical Islam. - Author: Donald Trump

#7. That love seemed to increase their desire to undo the corporations that made them. It used to be you had to make munitions to piss people off. Now it was enough to be large, global and successful. That made it a more radical, systematic critique, Nash thought. And more futile, naturally. - Author: Dana Spiotta

#8. Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#9. Love isn't something you can find by focusing harder or by crunching numbers or making radical changes to how you go about things. Public - Author: Hodder Moa

#10. Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment. - Author: Mike Mason

#11. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today. - Author: James H. Cone

#12. It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. - Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for its sake and to create happiness, which makes love radical and potentially seditious ... the inverse is also true: art is an act of love. - Author: Rod Dubey

#14. Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love. - Author: Ann Voskamp

#15. the most fundamental and radical of these changes is learning how to love and accept your precious body right now. It is, after all, the temple that houses your soul. - Author: Christiane Northrup

#16. I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting. - Author: John Waters

#17. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter. - Author: Preston Sprinkle

#18. This radical stance of prioritizing love over law could be said to be the baseline of Jesus' exegetical method. It is absolutely central to how Jesus understood and interpreted Scripture. - Author: Derek Flood

#19. His[Jesus'] death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order to raise man up and save him. This is love in its most radical form. - Author: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

#20. The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been characterized by radical views of love and sex. - Author: Rod Dubey

#21. I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first. - Author: Myles Horton

#22. Allowing for love is a radical act of saying yes to all of life. - Author: Annette Vaillancourt

#23. The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#24. Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone. - Author: John Piper

#25. We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts ... We can never be too generous or too kind. - Author: Marc Bekoff

#26. Jesus is the model for living a life of radical love. - Author: Glenn Hager

#27. I long to see a radical shift in philanthropy that will come to characterize the 21st century. That is, a reclaiming of the root meaning of philanthropy: love of what it means to human. - Author: Valaida Fullwood

#28. We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet. - Author: Shane Claiborne

#29. The God of the universe
the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor
loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. - Author: Francis Chan

#30. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#31. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. - Author: Dorothy Day

#32. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval. - Author: Ted Dekker

#33. Flowering. Love cannot be held long within categories, likewise the poetry celebrating love. You might say that love loves confusion and not be far wrong. Love is metamorphosis, rapid and radical, agile, full of vigor and levity. Love - Author: Jalaluddin Rumi

#34. The church is called to embody the boundless love of God by being a community of radical welcome to all God's children. - Author: Alexia Salvatierra

#35. If loving the nations feels too radical, redirect your love to God. He loves the nations and we love Him. That is enough. - Author: Todd Ahrend

#36. Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life - Author: Erich Fromm

#37. On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. - Author: Tara Brach

#38. Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye. - Author: Joshua Harris

#39. The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#40. One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body. - Author: Eve Ensler

#41. Love rather than fear ... this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope ... surely there is hope for us all. - Author: Bill Hicks

#42. I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists. - Author: John Waters

#43. Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking. - Author: Masha Tupitsyn

#44. How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all. - Author: Saul Bellow

#45. It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. - Author: Courtney Love

#46. When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought ... I just ... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so ... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?' - Author: Hugh Evans