Amos Smith Quotes

We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand.

To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was "one united dynamic nature": "at once God and human . . ." Ultimately, a Divine mystery - a paradox.

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.

The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages.

Jesus was contemplative and activist, mystic and prophet, Spirit and form, God and human, absolute and relative, Creator and creature, existing for eternity and existing in time.

Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.

God says to us "Some things won't get done unless you do them.

Theology at its best doesn't seek to solve, but to behold.

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.

I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.

When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God.

If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.

Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can "rest in God.