Quotes by Robert McAfee Brown

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

“The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.”

“How does one keep from growing old inside? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.”

“Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.”

“Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you dont know Latin very well.”

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nations ways of justice.

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly.