Robert E Webber Quotes

#1. I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

Dennis Prager

#2. God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

Martin Luther

#3. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?

Joanna Eliot

#4. Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Susan Sontag

#5. Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

Fernando Araujo Perdomo

#6. As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!

Sheri S. Tepper

#7. Beneath the privatization of worship is the ever-present individualism of our culture.

Robert E. Webber

#8. Ruth Levinson Third grade teacher. She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up. I can even change the world.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. Because God is the subject who acts upon me in worship, my participation is not reduced to verbal responses or to singing, but it is living in the pattern of the one who is revealed in worship.

Robert E. Webber

#10. I'm not waiting for times to change
I want to live like a free-roaming soul
on the highway of our love.

Neil Young

#11. You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

Paul Smith

#12. I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.

Robert E. Webber

#13. For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship.

Robert E. Webber

#14. There is something explainable about what man has accomplished in God's creation, while the creation itself remains a mystery.

Robert E. Webber

#15. In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church together is more important than that which divides the church.

Robert E. Webber

#16. The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.

Robert E. Webber

#17. God works through life, through people, and through physical, tangible, and material reality to communicate his healing presence in our lives.

Robert E. Webber