Diana Butler Bass quotes

“Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.”
-- Diana Butler Bass

Source : "Moving Beyond Tribal Religion" by Ryan Thomas Neace, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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“Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.”
-- Diana Butler Bass

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“The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.”
-- Diana Butler Bass

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“Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?”
-- Diana Butler Bass

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“With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.”
-- Diana Butler Bass

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“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”

“If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.”

“Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.”

“I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

“Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.”