Quotes from Diogenes Allen

Christians today and for many centuries have assumed that the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2-3 is the source of the belief in original sin. Adam

faith perishes if it is walled in, or confined. If it is anywhere, it must be everywhere, like God himself: if God is in your life, he is in all things, for he is God.

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

Academic theology, without spiritual practices, can all too easily lead to frustration with our theological constructions and even a loss of faith, because the practice of theology can then degenerate into a display of individual virtuosity rather than being an effort to grow in knowledge and love of God.

But faith, as we pointed out, is not primarily the acceptance of biblical beliefs because they have been revealed outside of and overriding human reason and good sense, and so in that sense are imposed on us without proper understanding.

The human capacity for unhappiness is so enormous that the entire world cannot fill it.