 | Croft M. Pentz - 1990 - 386 pages
...Christianity is like chicken pox — if you have it, you will give it to others. Remember, to be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Trim your lamp more often so that it will give more light and less smoke. The pastor's job is to fill... | |
 | William H. Willimon, Stanley Hauerwas - 1992 - 160 pages
...narratives you hope will be read. One of my favorite quotations is from Cardinal Souhard, who says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda...but in being a living mystery. It means to live in a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." I take it that's what you were trying... | |
 | Francis L. Gross, Toni Perior Gross - 1993 - 320 pages
...archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Suhard, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring people up, but in being a living...one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." 68 * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * Part Two HER BACKGROUND 6 FAMILY If... | |
 | Lee Griffith - 1993 - 288 pages
...times" to celebrate the upside down reality of the Sermon on the Mount. The mark of discipleship is "to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist."6 4. Biblical discipleship is marked by freedom — freedom from the law, freedom from responding... | |
 | Timothy R. Phillips, Dennis L. Okholm - 2009 - 244 pages
...way that our lives are incomprehensible apart from this God. As Cardinal Suhard has elegantly argued: "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda,...one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." That is the challenge which the contemporary American church faces and the one at which we are failing... | |
 | Stanley Hauerwas - 2001 - 760 pages
...4. In 1997 Hauerwas wrote, "I have always hoped that my work might exhibit Cardinal Suhard's claim: 'To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda...one's life would not make sense if God did not exist' " (srr, 38). Keeping Theological Ethics Theological," "Reforming Christian Social Ethics," "Vision,... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1989 - 1298 pages
...archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Suhard, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring people up, but in being a living...one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." (159-60J To that end may all our churches be so biblically formed as Dorothy Day and her Catholic Worker... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...creation. Jon Sobrino To be a witness does not consist of engaging in propaganda or in stirring people up. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Emmanuel Suhard The only New Testament precedents for spreading the Gospel are godly living, praying,... | |
 | Beth Impson - 2001 - 228 pages
...surround you than any plans your own heart could devise. "To be a witness," Cardinal Suhard says, "... means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist" (quoted in L'Engle, Walking, 31). Live in the joy of His call and in the blessing of His gifts —... | |
 | David Weaver-Zercher - 2001 - 316 pages
...he had previously foreshadowed with a quotation from the Archbishop of Paris: "To be a witness . . . means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist" (96). 14. Again, After the Fire can be read as a conversion narrative, for Testa's Amish-inspired "journey... | |
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To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery; it means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. 
