7 Quotes by John Pavlovitz

At the end of your time here, you will either have lived as a table maker or a wall builder.

The very idea that we can have the option of escaping terrible news or sidestepping difficult conversations or limiting disturbing information, is itself confirmation that we are buffered from a good deal of struggle. That we can tire of a story or an issue—likely means we have no real personal stake in it.

The distinction between seeing sin and seeing suffering is revelatory if we really let it seep into the deepest hollows of our hearts.

But what if we could make room for difference and space for disagreement in our spiritual communities? What if we could give permission for moral failure and freedom to not be certain, and the chance to gloriously fail without needing those things to become black marks against people or death-penalty offenses? What if we made space for people who are as screwed up as we are?

I knew without blinking that I didn’t have to choose between loving God and loving my brother – and he didn’t have to choose between being gay and being adored by God.

Discrimination hinders people from finding community, and it robs the Church of the tremendous gifts that diversity brings.

Jesus was far more relational then he was theological.