24 Quotes by Amos Smith

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.

Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can “rest in God.

The Alexandrian Mystics’ emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Theology at its best doesn’t seek to solve, but to behold.

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.

If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.

Christianity’s job, in the words of George Fox, is to live in the “power, life, light, seed and wisdom, by which we may take away the occasion of wars.