Quotes from Brother Curtis Almquist
Brother Curtis Almquist: Religion
To look at the Bible as some kind of fixed and final Word of God is a canon firing in the wrong direction. The Bible is part of the movement of God’s revelation, which is continuous.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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Brother Curtis Almquist: Religion
We cannot possess anything in this life, nothing truly belongs to us. I would say that it all belongs to God, and we belong to God. We are not possessors of anything, but rather stewards of everything. And because we are stewards we cherish things all the more.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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Brother Curtis Almquist: Religion
Wisdom has its source in God, and we have access to wisdom when we acknowledge that we are not our own god, when we are awe-filled with the recognition that we have something to learn from God about how to make meaning of this life.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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Brother Curtis Almquist: Religion
Mortality. Amidst the diminishments that aging brings can come an enormous and eternal freedom, a freedom of availability that we could not have known in our younger years.
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Brother Curtis Almquist: Religion
Freedom is known in the context of limitation, which is quite counter-cultural. We live in a culture where we are identified as “consumers,” in a market economy that is constantly alluring us with dissatisfaction, where what is next or what is new is presumed better than what is now. More is more and never enough. The notion that what is, is enough is quite radical, and yet there is a buried treasure to be found in the grace of contentment.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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