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Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.

— Skye Jethani The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

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By yielding its imagination to the forms around it, has the church, like ancient Israel, lost the ability to be an alternative people of God?

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Divine agnosticism, the sort I'm advocating, affirms the existence of God but then acknowledges our human inability to fully grasp his infinite nature.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

The influence of consumerism has led us to confuse institutions for people, means for the mission, and programs for the Spirit's power.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Christ's true people are branded with love.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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