#holiness

When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was, his answer was, “Lots of space, nothing holy.” Meditation is nothing holy. Therefore there’s nothing that you think or feel that somehow gets put in the category of “sin.” There’s nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of “bad.” There’s nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of “wrong.” It’s all good juicy stuff—the manure of waking up, the manure of achieving enlightenment, the art of living in the present moment. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#meditation #art

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place? ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#nature

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pope #religion #religion

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #creating #fell #god #him

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#call #certainly #gay #holiness #lesbian