You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
Krista TippettThe spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we've ordered our common life for many decades - law, politics, economics, science. It is, rather, a realization that these disciplines have a limited scope. They can't ask ultimate questions...they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. These are the kinds of questions religion arose to address and religions traditions are keepers of conversation across generations about them.
Krista TippettTags: love questioning questions religion faith service
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.
Krista TippettTags: belief god religion faith understanding
...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception.
Krista TippettTags: liberalism self-deception fundamentalism terrorism misunderstanding niebuhr
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
Krista TippettTags: art poetry humanity religion heart language
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