Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Quotes

• As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Moving, Broken, Tree

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• We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation- the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Practice, Daily Tasks, People

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.19, Paraclete Press

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• To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Moving, Neighbor, Climbs

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.38, Paraclete Press

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• For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.

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  Christian, Home, Heart

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

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  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

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  Desire, Culture, Each Day

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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