John Claypool quotes

“We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."”
-- John Claypool

Source : John Claypool (1983). “The light within you”, W Publishing Group

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“If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.”
-- John Claypool

Source : John R. Claypool (2004). “Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing through Grief”, p.65, CPG

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“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”
-- John Claypool

Source : John R. Claypool (2004). “Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief”, p.12, Church Publishing, Inc.

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“The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.”
-- John Claypool

Source : John Claypool (1983). “The light within you”, W Publishing Group

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“If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.”

“There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.”

Source : Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

“We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.”

“Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.”

“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”

“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books

“Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.”

“The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books