{"id":4288,"date":"2010-04-13T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/04\/quote-of-the-day-i-walk-by-faith-and-not-by-fright.html"},"modified":"2010-04-13T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:14:55","slug":"quote-of-the-day-i-walk-by-faith-and-not-by-fright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/04\/quote-of-the-day-i-walk-by-faith-and-not-by-fright.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: “I walk by faith and not by fright”"},"content":{"rendered":"
“I happen to think this is a great and important time to be Catholic. Really. No joke. How often do we get to be right smack in the middle of an opportunity for radical Christ-based, Holy Spirit-generated change – and know it? The challenge is, of course, believing that such change is possible, that we can indeed “all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” I actively, consciously choose to walk by faith and not by fright… <\/div>\n

…I choose to stay because ‘the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus’ is indeed the goal toward which I’m called to press on. I know the institutional church is simply an artifact that needs excavation and transformation. I choose to stay because I know God is bigger and the Holy Spirit more powerful than anything humans might muck up. I choose to be a participant observer. I choose to stay because having been raised Jewish, I know things could always be worse. Indeed, they already have been.”<\/p>\n

— FOB (Friend of the Bench) Meredith Gould<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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