Thursday, September 23, 2004
On Forgiveness and Grace
3 quotes:
"Our first task is not to forgive, but to learn to be the forgiven. Too often to be ready to forgive is a way of exerting control over another. We fear accepting forgiveness from another because such a gift makes us powerless, and we fear the loss of control involved. … Only by learning to accept God's forgiveness as we see it in the life and death of Jesus can we acquire the power that comes from learning to give up control."
Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
"It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them—in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries."
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being
"Our first task is not to forgive, but to learn to be the forgiven. Too often to be ready to forgive is a way of exerting control over another. We fear accepting forgiveness from another because such a gift makes us powerless, and we fear the loss of control involved. … Only by learning to accept God's forgiveness as we see it in the life and death of Jesus can we acquire the power that comes from learning to give up control."
Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
"It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them—in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries."
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being
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