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Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better. — Marcus J. Borg

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife — Marcus J. Borg

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted. — Marcus J. Borg

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God, — Marcus Borg

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened. — Marcus Borg

Stories can be true without being literally and factually true. — Marcus J. Borg

The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. — Sara Teasdale

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. — Marcus J. Borg

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul. — Paulo Coelho

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred. — Marcus Borg

Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care. — Marcus Borg

When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations. — L.J.Smith

God's dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth. — Marcus Borg

When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past. — Sylvia L'Namira

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are. — Marcus J. Borg

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things. — Marcus J. Borg

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself. — Tony Lema

To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote. — Marcus J. Borg

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true. — Marcus J. Borg

The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing. — Marcus J. Borg

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form? — Marcus J. Borg

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences — Piero Scaruffi

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse. — Charles Bukowski

Laughter is just like champagne
only without the headache afterwards. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31) — Marcus J. Borg

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God. — Marcus J. Borg