David Dark Quotes

• Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

  David Dark

  Answers, Born

  David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.17, Zondervan

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• Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

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  People, Feelings, Way

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• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  David Dark

  People, Records, May

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• And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

  David Dark

  Humility, Might, Sacred

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• What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

  David Dark

  Repentance, Pundits

  David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan

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