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[N]onviolence is a weapon of God’s apocalyptic warfare.

Fleming Rutledge, Advent

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The founding brethren [of the Community of the Resurrection] were Christian Socialists challenged by the poverty of the working classes, and their strong sense of vocation made them look for a new home in the industrialised north.

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In his [Jesus’] life and person, he defines what it is for glory and misery to come together and interpret one another. The Kingdom conquers, but not by abolishing the memory of the world of human failure and distress; only by taking it into its life. Jesus does not achieve a theoretical solution to the problem of how Kingdom and failure, future and present, hope and memory can be reconciled. He simply lives in both, the vividness of each, moment by moment, feeding the vividness of the other. He does so, the gospels suggest, because his life is given up, moment by moment, to his Father. Every moment and every experience is to be absorbed with utter seriousness–not in bland passivity, but taken, seen, probed and responded to. This is the ‘obedience’ of Jesus (never a very good word to describe this attitude of alert attention); and it is possible–so various bits of the New Testament suggest, and the fourth gospel argues explicitly–because he sees the Father. In the texture of all experience, joy, pain, vision, humiliation, Jesus acknowledges a single shaping love, drawing his life together into a single act of response. The world–or rather all the worlds, of grief and of hope–can be sensed as given.

Rowan Williams, The Truce of God

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If salvation is for any, it is for all.

Rowan Williams, The Truce of God

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Sin is fundamentally a refusal to accept creatureliness, the struggle to remake the world around myself; it is a refusal of contemplation. To refuse contemplation is to refuse God’s creation, and so to reject love. And if hell means anything, it means this.

Rowan Williams, The Truce of God

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War is to be dreaded (if we can echo the words of Jesus) not so much because it kills the body as because it destroys both body and soul, because its casualties are health and truth and hope. To resist this destruction is to affirm a faith in a human future.

Rowan Williams, The Truce of God

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The two callings are inseparable, the calling to ‘prayer and righteous action’, as the Protestant martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, writing from his prison cell in 1944. True prayer purifies the motive, true justice is the necessary work of sharing and liberating in others the humanity we have discovered in our contemplative encounter.

Rowan Williams, Holy Living

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God is spirit, and it is necessary that those worshipping worship in spirit.

John 4:24

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David Jones

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Saint Alexander Schmorell

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