MESSAGES FROM OUR MINISTERS
Summer 2010

Rev. Dr. Wayne Soble	Rev. Micheline Montreuil

"There are two kinds of people: those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it." (G. K. Chesterton) "Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God." (The Professor in Tom Shepperd's play Jumpers) "Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go towards truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms." (Simone Weil) "God is a comedian playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." (Voltaire) "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail." (Abraham Maslov) "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." (James Baldwin) "[Our] first duty is not to follow [our] conscience, but to enlighten it." (Bishop Charles Gore) "The deepest mark of committed Christianity is the difference it makes." (Elton Trueblood) "Man [sic!] is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." (Mark Twain) "Eighty per cent of life is just showing up." (Woody Allen)

"When people believe in nothing, they'll believe in anything." (C.S. Lewis) "All human evil comes from this: man's [sic!] inability to sit still in a room." (Blaise Pascal) "To clasp hands in prayer is the beginning of the uprising against the disorder of the world." (Karl Barth) "Worship is a soundtrack for the rest of life." (Thomas Long) "It has always seemed to me that being a human being is a terribly demanding, if not impossible, form of creaturehood." (Douglas John Hall) "I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings." (William Sloane Coffin) "The point of rebirth is not to stay young, but to grow up." (William Sloane Coffin) "We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs attention." (William Sloane Coffin) "We are the ones we have been waiting for." (Alice Walker) "Have a blessed and thoughtful summer!" (I made this one all by myself) wws

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