24 Quotes by Amos Smith

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.

Jesus was contemplative and activist, mystic and prophet, Spirit and form, God and human, absolute and relative, Creator and creature, existing for eternity and existing in time.

I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.

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.

God says to us “Some things won’t get done unless you do them.

When we revere our human form we respect other human beings, who are so similar to us, for their innate worth. This is the starting place for developing a social conscience.

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus’ divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.

As Bill Coffin put it, “We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.

The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages.