Two quotes today pointing to a centred place. They describe it differently, but they are both imagining and seeking the same place:
“What lies between individualistic judgemental coercive fundamentalism and bland tolerant promiscuous self expressivism is the mutual discerning community daily following Jesus.”
- David Fitch
“The verse ‘Be still and know that I am God’ is not an escape from the problems of the world but it is the answer to the problems of the world, because this stillness and knowledge of God is the most powerful central reality. It is the city, it cannot be moved. It is the most central reality of the world. And the fact that the world is in turmoil with terrorism, with craziness, with hate, with self-centred militaristic politics, despite all those horrific aspects of the world, the stillness and the knowledge of God are central. And this stillness and knowledge is greater than the turmoil, greater than the violence, greater than the hatred. And nothing describes more directly the connection between our meditation and the needs of the world.”
- Laurence Freeman