Quotes from Brother Mark Brown
Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Brother Mark Brown: Religion
I heard Elie Wiesel speak once in a synagogue near Chicago. I remember him saying that gratitude is the most human sentiment. I think what he meant was that when we are in a state of gratitude, we are most fully alive in our humanity. That such fullness of life and humanity is possible for us is yet more cause for thanksgiving.
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Brother Mark Brown: Religion
When it comes right down to it, the Christian religion is grounded in what we embody, what we actually do in this world, what we incarnate. Theology—great. Scholarship—great. Bible study—great. Personal devotion—great. All these good things can be strategies of evasion, however, if we are not grounded in actual practice in an actual community.
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Brother Mark Brown: Religion
We are so tempted to measure human worth by what we have or what we can do or any number of other ways. But if the Spirit of God dwells within us, if this Spirit flows between us and among us and through us like “a river of living water”, we are bound to recognize our essential equality.
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