“there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.”
“The descent beckonsas the ascent beckoned”
“To live without youis to be robbed of loveand what is life without it?To live without youis death to me, my lovebut some call it life.”
“God’s downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherd—and all in the name of mission. Instead of churching the unchurched, we are well on our way to even unchurching the churched.”
“I want some time without you organic life forms.”
“A life without living was simply a death without dying.”